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In the late 1300's the Inca were just a small community in a area called cuzcoand at a city located at the southern peru. As well they had a leader/ruler called Pachcut
Political and Social Structures
The Maya cities are built around a central pyramid topped by a shrine to the gods. Its around the tempals, palaces, and a saured ball court. A lot of people believe that inhabitats may have lived in urban in tikal in the present day of guatemala
Writings and Calendar
The Maya created a sophisticated writing based on hieroglyphs.
The largest Maya cities were home to many people. At the major centre of Tikal, for example, within a six-square-mile area, there were over 10,000 individual structures ranging from temple-pyramids to thatched-roof huts. They wear hats with feathers on them and creative clothes. Many of the foods of the Maya, both ancient and modern, are strange to us, such as manioc, chaya, and jicama; but other fruits and vegetables are found in today's supermarkets avocados, sweet potatoes, guavas, and tomatoes. Some of the warriors were actually more powerful than the nobles they served. The leaders of the warriors in each city might work with the city priests to determine if captives were needed for sacrifice. Pyramids were the largest buildings in Mayan cities and were built as temples and royal tombs. Shrines where sacrifices were made to the gods were at the top, while burial chambers were hidden deep inside
Maya rulers. Maya kings were the centers of power for the Maya civilization. Each Maya city-state was controlled by a dynasty of kings. | <urn:uuid:17f0a2a7-850a-4308-b73b-09ac8b6d707f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://tackk.com/nk3m9f | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280587.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00568-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987755 | 359 | 3.8125 | 4 |
Just released U.S. Census figures show that about 55 percent of Gila County’s 53,597 residents live in the north end of the county — a figure that will pattern the developing political battle over redistricting.
The county’s population has barely changed in the past decade, rising just 4 percent in that time.
On the other hand, Payson’s population has risen 12 percent in the past
decade and Globe’s by 6 percent.
By contrast, Arizona’s population grew 25 percent during that same time, the second-highest growth rate in the country. However, most of that growth was concentrated in Maricopa and Pima County, with rural areas of the state continuing to lag behind those two, huge urban cores.
The just-released census figures show that in the past decade, Maricopa County’s population jumped 24 percent to 3.8 million. Within the county, Phoenix grew 9 percent to 1.4 million, Chandler grew 34 percent to 236,123, Mesa grew 11 percent to 439,000 and Glendale grew 3.6 percent to 227,000.
Pima County grew 16 percent to 980,000 — while Tucson grew 7 percent to 520,000.
The fastest growing county in the state was Pinal County, which caught the spillover from the Phoenix area with lower home prices and a horrendous
commute. Pinal County grew 109 percent to a population of 376,000.
Mohave County jumped 29 percent to 200,000, and Yavapai grew 26 percent to 211,000.
In Gila County, the 2010 census numbers suggest the population has shifted to the north.
The numbers will likely pattern a fierce political struggle centering on the once-a-decade redrawing of voting district lines — including three county supervisor seats and five Gila Community College seats.
Right now, two of the three county supervisors and three of the five Gila Community College Board members have district boundaries drawn in such a way that southern county voters dominate.
Payson now has 15,301 residents in the town boundaries and 23,807 if you include the nearby, unincorporated communities, according to the 2010 census numbers released at a community level on Friday.
Star Valley’s population stands at 2,310, Pine’s at 1,963 and Strawberry at 961. The Mesa del Caballo subdivision off Houston Mesa Road has 765 residents.
The immediate Payson area now accounts for 44 percent of the population in the entire county.
The Globe Miami area has a population of 18,134, or about 34 percent of the county population.
The San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation has the next largest concentration of residents at 5,288 — nearly 10 percent of the county population.
The large block of voters on the San Carlos Reservation will likely complicate efforts to draw district lines that fully reflect the overall shift of population to northern Gila County.
The federal rules for drawing district boundaries discourage lines that split up “communities of interest,” especially minority populations. Several court rules have held that splitting up a single, geographically cohesive minority community among multiple districts dilutes their political influence and makes it much harder for a member of that minority community to win an election.
As a result, during the last redistricting all of the San Carlos voters ended up in a single district, currently represented by Supervisor Shirley Dawson. That played a key role in assuring that two of the three supervisorial seats were dominated by southern county voters.
This year, the board of supervisors set up a theoretically independent committee to actually draw up the new district lines based on the latest census data, as required by law. Dawson and Supervisor Mike Pastor each named three south county residents to the committee. Supervisor Tommie Martin, whose district covers the bulk of northern Gila County, appointed three north county residents — giving the south two-thirds of the seats on the crucial committee.
The census figures showed that the largely rural county has barely grown in the past decade, a trend common in Arizona’s sprawling rural counties where the federal government or Indian tribes own most of the land.
Gila County has 4,767 square miles of territory with 10.8 people per square mile, compared to 45 people per square mile in the whole state.
The county is 82 percent white, compared to 86 percent statewide. The county’s population is 15 percent American Indian compared to 5 percent statewide. About 17 percent of the county’s residents are Hispanic, compared to 31 percent statewide.
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Since our first issue back in 1970 right up through today, MOTHER EARTH NEWS has featured advice for wiser living. We’ve published great project ideas for DIY solar collectors, tips for gardening and raising livestock, the best ideas for creating a greener home, wacky ideas for personal transportation, creative recipes, and much more.
Straight from our magazine archive, here is a selection of great (or wacky, depending on your perspective) articles from the past 40 years.
Alternative Fuels: Chicken Poop, Wood Chips and …
Forget about gas, diesel or ethanol. Power your car with chicken manure! Mother has always published information about green transportation — from using alternative fuels to improving gas mileage. Perhaps one of our most unusual ideas was using chicken manure to power a vehicle. But first, you need to convert that manure into methane. To learn how, see How To Build a 100 Cubic Foot a Day Methane Gas Plant (1971).
Learn how to convert a non-fuel-injected vehicle (such as a chartreuse microbus, if you have one) to run on liquid propane gas (LPG), methane or natural gas.
Long before the Toyota Prius arrived, Mother Earth News readers learned about gasoline-electric hybrid cars and how to convert an Opel GT into one. We still offer conversion blueprints via our website!
Mother’s Wood-Powered Truck
Did you know you can use wood chips to fire up your vehicle’s engine? This technique was used during World War II and refined by Mother Earth News in the ’70s and ’80s. If you have access to waste wood, why not fuel an old truck with it? This method really works.
It’s a car. No, it’s a motorcycle. Wait, it’s the fuel-efficient, three-wheel 3VG! This futuristic prototype took several years for the editors to develop. Today, Aptera Motors is building a similar vehicle. For details, read Debate Arises on 3 Wheeler.
This supercool sports car is powered by a diesel engine normally used in tractors. It’s still a work in progress, but the goal is to design an affordable 100-mpg vehicle that you can build yourself. Read the most recent updates on the 100-mpg Car page.
‘The Man,’ Long Hair and More
Prompted by “biodegradable” milk cartons, this short article rages against one of the first instances of greenwashing, long before the phrase was coined. Today, we know that virtually everything we put into our landfills lasts pretty much “forever.”
The Tao of Cutting Your Hair (1970)
Brush up on 1970s hair-care philosophy, learn how to cut your own hair, and discover tricks such as how to use stale beer to set hair.
Read about how some “city peace creeps” came to the country, picked wildflowers, developed some muscles, made a lot of friends and set the North Land free. “Step one: Go somewhere where no one else that you know is. Step two: Make friends with the local farmers.” Step No. 2 is certainly good advice — no matter what decade it is.
Energy from the Sun and Compost!
Build a shed with solar collectors, store the hot water in a homemade tank in the shed, then use the water to heat your house. This may be the single best do-it-yourself article we’ve ever published.
Compost Water Heater (1981)
Manure makes great fertilizer and compost, but you can heat water with the rotting stuff, too. It generates heat as it decomposes! The basic concept is to run hose or pipes through a big pile of compost to extract the heat.
When the Mother Earth News ecovillage (a 600-acre research center in North Carolina) was still active, the staff developed and tested all sorts of projects, including this solar water heater. One model performed almost as well as the best commercial model, but cost only one-fifth as much.
These articles give detailed instructions on building a concentrating solar boiler to power a steam engine (to produce electricity), heat a home or heat water for household use. We were way ahead of the times with this one. Today, several large concentrating solar power plants are under construction.
In the 1970s, plans for vertical-axis and Savonius wind turbines were popular. These days, they still have fringe popularity, but current designs aren’t as efficient as traditional horizontal-axis wind turbines.
Natural Foods: Snakes, Bugs and Groundhogs
Venomous reptiles are best left alone, but if they get too close to children or livestock and you have to kill one, don’t let it go to waste! This article covers how to tan a snakeskin, prepare the meat and make snake-bone jewelry.
If grass-fed beef doesn’t quite suit your taste, how about insects? Some of the little buggers contain up to three times as much protein as the meats we routinely eat. Funny, they still aren’t part of the food pyramid.
Yes, you really can eat groundhog. Check out these recipes for a different way to celebrate the end of winter. Would you like fries with that?
Everything for Life (and Death) on the Homestead
The Shoshone Tribe of Nevada uses Lithospermum rudeale as a contraceptive. Taken daily for six months, the lithospermum reportedly halts production of the estrus cycle. (Results not guaranteed.)
Privies, Old & New (1972)
Although your local zoning authority may disagree, a properly managed outhouse doesn’t constitute an environmental hazard. Plus, it’s a great place to think or read. This article includes all sorts of useful advice about building and using an outhouse — including suggestions for “recycling” the paper from phone books and catalogs.
Macrame a Hanging Cradle (1976)
In 1976, macramé was so cool! This couple put their knot-tying skills to work by making a baby cradle that hung at the foot of their bed.
In the early ’80s, we published a series of seven articles explaining how to build a do-it-yourself, earth-sheltered house. In 2009, we republished a classic book on this topic, The Earth-Sheltered House by the late Malcolm Wells.
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The alternative minimum tax: Coping with the AMT iceberg
By Richard Barrington
Think of it as the iceberg of the tax code. And your tax return may be the next Titanic.
The alternative minimum tax (AMT) is like an iceberg because it often represents a hidden danger, and one that can have severely damaging effects. You can be sailing along, thinking you've conscientiously filed your tax return and paid your taxes. Then, BOOM! You get a letter from the IRS, assessing penalties because you failed to pay the alternative minimum tax. You've just hit the AMT iceberg.
If you want to avoid hitting the AMT iceberg, you'll need to know a little background about the alternative minimum tax, and how to cope with it.
Defining the alternative minimum tax
Think of the alternative minimum tax as an alternative tax code, existing outside of normal federal tax brackets and rules. The AMT was created in 1969 to prevent people from claiming so many deductions that they paid little or no tax.
Basically, the AMT is a tax calculation which ignores many common tax deductions, and also ignores lower federal tax brackets for certain types of income, such as capital gains. Your taxable income is re-calculated under AMT rules, and then a standard AMT exemption is subtracted -- $33,750 for single tax payers, $45,000 for married tax payers filing jointly, and $22,500 for married tax payers filing separately. An alternative minimum tax rate is then applied to the remainder -- 26 percent on the first $175,000 for couples filing jointly, and 28 percent on any amount above that.
If calculating your taxes this way results in a higher liability than calculating your tax using standard federal tax brackets and deductions, then you owe the alternative minimum tax.
Coping with the alternative minimum tax
The alternative minimum tax may seem convoluted and obscure, but it is becoming a reality more and more Americans have to deal with. Because AMT exemptions have not kept pace with inflation, what was once a check on high-income tax payers has now found its way squarely into the middle class. The number of people paying the alternative minimum tax has risen from 19,000 in 1970 to the millions today.
Therefore, since you may be the next tax payer to hit the AMT iceberg, you should know some ways of coping with it:
- Identify whether you are in an AMT high-risk group. People who are most susceptible to the AMT are those who earn more than the AMT exemption amounts listed above, and claim a large dollar amount of tax deductions and/or have a substantial portion of their income come in the form of capital gains.
- Check the AMT assistant. If you believe that you fall into an AMT high-risk group, then a good next step is to try the AMT Assistant for Individuals, an online tool available from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). By entering some information into the AMT Assistant, you can find out whether you are likely to be subject to the alternative minimum tax.
- Fill out federal income tax Form 6251, if indicated. If the AMT assistant indicates that you may be subject to the AMT, then you should fill out federal income tax Form 6251 when you calculate your federal income tax return. This form will walk you through the AMT calculation, and you can then compare the result to your tax liability using conventional federal tax brackets and tax deductions.
- Keep a copy of federal income tax Form 8801 handy for next year. If you pay the AMT one year but don't owe the AMT the next year, you may be eligible for a special tax credit. Form 8801 will help you calculate your eligibility for this credit.
The tax code is always somewhat in flux, so check with the IRS and your tax advisor for the latest rules regarding the alternative minimum tax. The more you know, the more you'll be able to cope with the AMT iceberg.
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1 ) The attack is interdisciplinary. Problems in our societies are excessively complex to be studied from one position. This entails different dimensions of interdisciplinarity: theories draw on neighboring subjects and seek to incorporate other/new theories. Teamwork consists of different research workers from different traditionally defined subjects working together. Last. besides the methodological analysiss are adapted to the informations under probe. 2 ) The attack is problem-oriented. Social jobs are the points of research. such as “racism. individuality. gender. societal change” . which. of class. are and could be studied from multiplex positions. The CDA dimension. discourse and text-analysis. is one of many possible attacks. 3 ) The theories every bit good as the methodological analysiss are normally eclectic ; i. e. . theories and methods are integrated which are equal in understanding and explicating the object under probe.
4 ) Research in CDA should integrate fieldwork and descriptive anthropology to research the object under probe ( survey from the interior ) as a stipulation for any farther analysis and theorizing. This attack enables to avoid to `”fit the informations to exemplify a theory” . Rather. we deal with bottom–up and top- down attacks at the same clip. 5 ) The attack is abductive and retroductive: a changeless motion back and Forth between theory and empirical information is necessary. This is a pre necessity for rule 4. 6 ) Multiple genres and multiple public infinites should be studied. therefore both intertextual and interdiscursive relationships. Recontextualization is the most of import procedure in linking genres every bit good as subjects and statements ( topoi ) . 7 ) The historical context should be explicitly considered and integrated into the reading of discourses and texts. The impression of “change” ( see principle 6 ) has become built-in to the survey of text and discourse ; the construct of “recontextualization” is relevant to the analysis of societal alteration.
8 ) The classs and tools for the analysis are defined harmonizing to all these stairss and processs every bit good as to the particular job under probe. This entails some eclectic method. every bit good as pragmatism. Different attacks in CDA use different grammatical theories. although many apply Systemic Functional Linguistics in some manner or other. 9 ) The problem-oriented attack entails the usage and testing of middle-range theories. “Grand Theories” consequence in large spreads between structure/context and lingual realisations ( although some spreads must remain unbridgeable ) . 10 ) Practice and application are aimed at. The consequences should be made available to experts in different Fieldss and. as a 2nd measure. be applied. with the end of altering certain dianoetic and societal patterns.
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Therefore. CDA might be defined as basically interested in analysing opaque every bit good as crystalline structural relationships of laterality. favoritism. power and control as manifested in linguistic communication. In other words. CDA aims to look into critically societal inequality as it is expressed. constituted. legitimized etc. by linguistic communication usage ( or in discourse ) . Most critical discourse analysts would therefore back Habermas’ claim that “language is besides a medium of domination and societal force. It serves to legalize dealingss of organized power. Insofar as the legitimizations of power dealingss. … . are non articulated. … . . linguistic communication is besides ideological” ( Habermas 1967. 259 ) .
The impressions of power. history and political orientation
In contrast to other paradigms in discourse analysis and text-linguistics. CDA focuses non merely on texts. talk or written. as objects of enquiry. A to the full “critical” history of discourse would therefore necessitate a theorisation and description of both the societal procedures and constructions. which give rise to the production of a text. and of the societal constructions and procedures within which persons or groups as social-historical topics. create significances in their interaction with texts ( Fairclough & A ; Kress. 1993. 2ff ) . Consequently. three constructs figure indispensably in all CDA: the construct of power ; the construct of history ; and the construct of political orientation.
Power dealingss are a battle over involvements. which are exercised. reflected. maintained and resisted through a assortment of modes. extents and grades of explicitness ( we distinguish between overt and covert power dealingss. such as physical force and expressed gate-keeping processs versus latent webs. for illustration ) .
Political orientations are [ cognitive ] representations of patterns formed from peculiar positions in the involvement of keeping unequal power dealingss and laterality. ( Fairclough & A ; Wodak 1997 )
The Discourse-Historical Approach ( Reisigl and Wodak 2001 )
( Summary of some processs of analysis ) :
The specific discourse-analytical attack is 3-dimensional: after ( 1 ) holding established the specific contents or subjects of a specific discourse. ( 2 ) the dianoetic schemes ( including debate schemes ) are investigated. Then ( 3 ) . the lingual agencies ( as types ) and the particular. context-dependent lingual realisations ( as items ) are examined ( 4 ) .
There are several dianoetic elements and schemes which. in our discourse analytical position. deserve to have particular attending. We orientate ourselves to five constituent inquiries:
How are individuals named and referred to linguistically?
What traits. features. qualities and characteristics are attributed to them? By agencies of what statements and debate strategies do specific individuals or societal groups try to warrant and legalize the inclusion or exclusion of some? From what position or point of position are these labels. ascriptions and statements expressed? Are the several vocalizations articulated overtly. are they even intensified or are they mitigated?
Harmonizing to these inquiries. we are particularly interested in five types of dianoetic schemes. which are all involved in the positive self- and negative other-presentation. The dianoetic building of “US” and “THEM” is the basic basis of discourses of individuality and difference.
By “strategy” we by and large mean a more or less accurate and more or less knowing program of patterns ( including dianoetic patterns ) adopted to accomplish a peculiar societal. political. psychological or lingual purpose.
Table 1: Dianoetic schemes for positive self- and negative other representation
Feminist CDA ( FCDA )
For feminist CDA. the focal point is on how gender political orientation and gendered dealingss of power are ( rhenium ) produced. negotiated and contested in representations of societal patterns. in societal relationships between people. and in people’s societal and personal individualities in texts and talk ( Lazar 2005. 11 ) .
The matrimony of feminism with CDA. in amount. can bring forth a rich and powerful review for action” ( Lazar 2005. 5 )
Suggested rules for research in FCDA ( Wodak 2005a ) :
1 ) Interrupting up dualities!
2 ) Distinguishing the scope of gendered individualities!
3 ) Associating gender to other individualities. such as ethnicity. societal category. profession. civilization. political association. etc. ! Interdisciplinarity necessary! 4 ) Analyzing gender in socio-political. situative. synergistic and historical contexts! ( Gender maps as one interpretive class in all contexts ; gender enters as a societal relation into all contexts ) 5 ) Theorizing and analysing the peculiarly insidious and oppressive nature of gender as an omni-relevant class in most societal patterns ( in the interplay with 4 ) . 6 ) Raising as debatable the impression of scientific neutrality ( all cognition is socially constructed! ) 7 ) Sing gender as ideological construction.
8 ) Deconstructing the hegemony and symbolic force of gender in our societies! ( i. e. concentrating on the latent. covert mechanisms of favoritism ; patriarchal gender political orientation is structural. similar and to and combined with other prejudiced patterns in our societies ) . 9 ) Contesting the prevailing gender political orientation by doing it crystalline ; 10 ) Sing gender non merely as ramblingly constructed but holding a material base every bit good ( different wages for the same occupation for work forces and adult females. for illustration ) ; 11 ) Reflecting one’s ain research activities critically ( This entails. for illustration. including female bookmans from non-Western societies ; see Lazar 2005. 19ff. ) .
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In a new op-ed piece at the Los Angeles Times, Jonah Goldberg points out that while education is important to America’s future it doesn’t drive economic growth.
Goldberg: Education spending that isn’t smart
Not long after President Obama proclaimed in his second inaugural that “an economic recovery has begun,” we learned that the U.S. economy actually shrank in the last quarter. Many economists believe this is a temporary setback. This recovery may be the weakest in American history, but the economy isn’t cratering either.
Still, you can bet that if the economy continues to contract, Obama will propose the same remedy he always has: more “investments” in education, infrastructure and various industries of the future. It seems that whatever the ailment, Dr. Obama always writes the same prescription.
This is hardly shocking: Building roads and schools is a big reason why God created Democrats in the first place. And identifying the Next Big Thing — and taking credit for it — is something of a vocation for many liberal policymakers.
But are these really the drivers of economic growth?
Higher education in particular is almost universally championed as the key to “winning the future”
— a buzz phrase the president borrowed from Newt Gingrich awhile back. New York Times economics columnist David Leonhardt calls education the “lifeblood of economic growth.”
Often channeling such writers as Thomas Friedman, whose fondness for the Chinese economic model borders on the perverse, Obama routinely elevates education to a national security issue. “There’s an educational arms race taking place around the world right now — from China to Germany, to India to South Korea,” Obama said in 2010. “Cutting back on education would amount to unilateral disarmament. We can’t afford to do that.”
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Join Scott Hirsch for an in-depth discussion in this video Automating volume, part of Mixing a Short Film with Audition.
At this point, this film has really come a long way.…We've pretty much fleshed out all the backgrounds, effects, music, and dialogue tracks.…Now it's time to start thinking about how we're going to mix each individual…track together to make it sound as good as possible.…When we mix our film, it's good to be aware of another view of tracks we haven't…seen yet: the Track Envelope view.…You can open the track envelopes by clicking on the little disclosure…triangle next to word Read.…As you can see, you can choose which envelopes to show under the Show Envelopes…pulldown menu, and Volume is already selected.…
This is our Volume envelope, this line that we see across the track.…If we click on the track Volume Envelope line, we'll create what's called a keyframe.…We can click to add another keyframe.…Once we have a couple of keyframes in there, we can use the next or previous…keyframe icons to move the cursor between the keyframes.…We can also click the middle icon to make a new keyframe.…We can even erase our keyframes with the Eraser tool over here.…
This Adobe Audition course is an excellent companion to our video course Documentary Editing with Premiere Pro, which shows how to highlight a cause, express a point of view, and tell a story with Adobe Premiere Pro and some essential documentary editing techniques.
- Setting up your Audition workspace and project
- Exporting audio and video from Premiere Pro
- Editing dialogue
- Reducing hum
- Using background ambience
- Automating plugins
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San Francisco, California
As developer of the $350 million AT&T Park for the San Francisco Giants, DEVEN was instrumental in delivering one of the most recognized baseball venues in the world. This 41,000-seat stadium is known for the unique design that engages the adjacent China Basin waterfront, views of San Francisco Bay and the unique left field fan zone that is a cornerstone of media broadcast coverage. The ballpark is situated on 12.5 acres of reclaimed land that contains debris from the Great Earthquake of 1906, requiring complex site-specific foundation systems. The stadium has been the catalyst for the regeneration of the wider China Basin waterfront industrial zone that includes a new research campus for the University of California, commercial office and retail space, and the addition of several thousand housing units. | <urn:uuid:1d5ce162-d26c-48bf-b051-a1f8dc5b7376> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://devengroup.us/portfolio-item/att-park/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.933536 | 160 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Yes, integers can be positive! An integer is basically any whole number, positive ir negative!
The prefix ir- is used to form the word irregular.
The number of significant digits in an integer ending in zeros is always ambiguous. It is not clear whether the number is accurate to the nearest hundred thousands (1 significant digit), ir to the nearest unit (6 sig digs).
Iridium (Ir), has 77 electrons. The atomic number is equal to the number of protons and since Ir is neutrally charged, equal to the number of electrons.
V=IR (from Ohm's Law) So, R=V/I =120 ohms
It is a prime number.
The simple answer is V=IR => I=V/R => I=120/20 => I=6 amps.
We know that V=IR. This can be re-arranged for R by dividing by I. This leaves R=V/I. Plug in the values V=120 & I=15: R=120/15=8 ohms
V=IR since the load is pure resitance, R=V/I => 120/8 = 15 ohm
18"*18" = 1.5 ft * 1.5 ft = 2.25 sq ft To cover 120 sqft you would require 120/2.25 = 53.33 ir 54 tiles. That answer is correct as a mathematical exercise, but in real life, the number of tiles depends upon the exact dimensions of the 120 sq ft area. It also assumes that all offcuts can be used and that there is no wastage. These are rather unrealistic assumptions so you should allow 5-10% extra.
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NYC Council Pushes for More Local Food
New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn last week released an 86-page report on ways in which to reform the city’s food system. The 59 proposals presented in the report address every phase of the food system, from agricultural production through post-consumption.
“The proposals focus on combating hunger and obesity to preserving regional farming and local food manufacturing to decreasing waste and energy usage,” says the New York City Council in a press release.
The proposals call for new procurement guidelines encouraging city agencies to purchase food from regional farmers as well as new legislation to reduce the packaging for the food they procure. The report urges the city to invest in food processing facilities and to consider a much bolder vision for the redevelopment of the aging Hunts Point Market in the Bronx, the world’s largest wholesale produce market and “the beating heart of our city’s food system,” said Speaker Quinn in her remarks. As part of this bolder vision, the report endorses a permanent wholesale farmers market, which I blogged about here, and the building of new rail terminals to reduce the number of trucks to Hunts Point each day.
Another notable proposal calls on restaurants to recycle their grease. The grease and oil restaurants produce can be “turned into a biofuel that heats buildings and runs vehicles,” said Speaker Quinn.
In a show of support for local farmers, Speaker Quinn announced a community supported agriculture (CSA) plan for City Hall employees. City Council would also work with the Department for the Aging and the New York City Housing Authority to bring CSAs to senior centers and public housing.
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The concept of a canon and its impact upon the teaching and examining of English literature
This thesis sets out to investigate the concept of a canon, and its impact upon the teaching and examining of English Literature in this country. It focuses on the relationships linking the concept of a canon, conceptualizations of canonicity and their practical consequences: four propositions are raised concerning those relationships. The thesis seeks to identify the ethical implications of the rival moral anthropologies which are involved in those relationships, and applies an axiological critique to the praxiological issues and pedagogical aspects of canonicity when related to notions of the 'critical' in literary theory, social theory and critical pedagogy. Since canonicity, culture and literature are considered inextricably linked, and theory recognised as 'a miscellaneous genre' (Culler 1988:87), theories of language, history, mind and culture are perceived as potentially illuminative accounts of signification. The philosophy of the aesthetic as an autonomous realm, purposively instrumental in equating a 'correct' reading of literary hermeneutics with its 'correct' counterpart in establishment axiology, is seen as problematic, and central to the thesis. The thesis is presented in three parts: Part One: Setting the Scene Part Two: The Conceptual Domain Part Three: Evaluation: Effects, Consequences and Implications. The findings are offered as a tentative explanation of the consequences of canonicity. They suggest that current conceptualizations of canonicity encourage and enable a cultural-restorationist approach, wherein a prescriptive rather than an emancipatory pedagogy is enacted in the teaching and examining of English Literature within contemporary compulsory schooling in this country. | <urn:uuid:d64dd2f9-5f0a-44ef-96fe-f34542a1c2b8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.411960 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00256-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927945 | 342 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Frequency Allocation App
The table of frequency allocation constitutes the document for regulation of frequency allocation and the frequency utilization in the Sultanate of Oman by legal and physical entities which engaged in ordering, development and purchasing radio-electronic installations (REI) or in planning frequency use by the existing REI. The content of frequency allocation table and attached regulations are always under the optimization of the Telecommunication Regulatory Authority for embracing the increasing demands of radio telecommunication sector, as far as compatible with national Telecommunication Act, international trends and existing applications. The Spectrum Management Unit monitors constantly the trends and developments of new wireless technologies and reviews the frequency allocations whenever there is a demand for spectrum. To keep the industry and interested parties informed on the availability of spectrum in the coming years, the technological trends in the use of spectrum and the national telecommunication policy direction with regard to spectrum allocation and re-allocation for public communication networks.
"Please note that this application is under development and some features are not available for the time been."
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TUESDAY, April 10, 2012 — People living with type 2 diabetes have a long to-do list when it comes to managing their condition. Most people have to monitor their blood sugar throughout the day, eat a diabetes-friendly diet, exercise regularly, take medication, and make frequent visits to their doctors. And while there are resources available to people newly diagnosed with the disease, managing it can at first seem overwhelming, especially because day-to-day diabetes care really falls to the patient.
In the UK, most people who have recently been diagnosed with diabetes go through a short course on how to self-manage the disease. But now, new research from Queen Mary, University of London, reveals that the current model of diabetes education in the UK might fall short.
Researchers found that this limited self-care education doesn't work because it fails to address the numerous factors patients may encounter on any given day that are outside of their control, such as the nutritional value of restaurant foods, the local availability of healthy foods, and the pressures they may face from friends and family. The researchers also estimated that only about one percent of a patient's time spent managing their diabetes is done in the company of health professionals. The other 99 percent of the time, patients are managing the disease on their own or with the help of caregivers who lack professional medical training.
The Everyday Challenges of Diabetes Management
In the study, Trisha Greenhalgh, PhD, and a team of researchers tracked the habits of 30 people living with diabetes. They found that most people with the disease devote a large chunk of time every day to managing it. For the patients who were unable to manage their diabetes well, it tended to be because they were overstretched by other responsibilities, had other conditions that needed attention, such as heart disease, or were struggling financially. Many people also struggled with eating healthfully in cafes and restaurants, where nutritional information might be unavailable or confusing.
Currently, 23.6 million people are living with diabetes in the United States, and Greenhalgh and her team hope this new information will serve as a wake-up call to healthcare professionals who might be unaware of the challenges their patients face outside of their doctor's office.
"There is a trend toward encouraging individuals to look after their own health. This study highlights that whilst many people with diabetes are ready and able to do this, health professionals and wider society could be doing more to support them," Greenhalgh said in a release. "Sadly there is still a great deal of ignorance, stigma and stereotyping [surrounding diabetes]."
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After 18 years of desperate struggle, Rome has gradually turned the tide against Hannibal, and now the Carthaginian finds himself bottled up in the toe of Italy while Scipio ruthlessly tightens the noose around Carthage on the African mainland. Knowing that Hannibal must sooner or later abandon Italy and come to the aid of his countrymen, the brilliant Roman commander prepares for the inevitable test of strength. It is not long in coming.
Volume 2 of Rome and the Mediterranean brings to an end the long and violent struggle between Scipio and Hannibal. The grand spectacle of naval and land battles, the political intrigue and tribal quarrels, and the interminable squabbles among the Greek city states...all comes to an end. Roman hegemony is now complete. If for no other reason, the pleasure of reading Polybius is his penetrating character analysis of the leading men of his day.
There is something peculiarly modern about Polybius, though in his own day he was criticized for his lack of style. In fact, by the time of the third century A.D., he had largely been forgotten in the West. He was resurrected in the Renaissance and found greater and greater support among republican thinkers, especially those of the Founding Fathers of the American Revolution. Until recently, Polybius was read only by those interested in Roman Republican and Greek Hellenistic history. However, his spectacular ability to draw the reader into the drama of the historical narrative has made him popular among modern readers, and all the more so as he is the primary source for those events in ancient history which are today considered not only of the utmost importance, but also of enduring interest. It is a great pity that his work did not survive intact, though we should consider ourselves fortunate to have what is left. Download and start listening now! | <urn:uuid:449f6799-bcd6-412c-ba52-394e4301bc5c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://audiobookstore.com/audiobooks/rome-and-the-mediterranean-vol-2.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00209-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976446 | 368 | 2.15625 | 2 |
We just lost a proposed £4 billion, 1.2 GW offshore wind installation. RWE cite `technological challenges and market conditions'. We're spending £16 billion for 3.2 GW of nuclear and a whole load of uncertainty about waste the taxpayer appears to be responsible for.
Offshore windfarm: £3.33 billion per GW vs nuclear: £5 billion per GW. Oh good. (Looking here the windfarm output figure is an annual average output based on meteorological models/data, not peak output, so should be comparable.)
Let's hope this was more `technological challenges' than `market conditions' and that the market conditions didn't include mixed signals from government. Losing 1.2 GW of carbon-free generation right now? Madness. (Yeah, I know there's carbon in the production of wind turbines...)
I'm for nuclear too: despite the issues involved, Hinkley Point is still 3.2 GW, whatever the per-watt price. But it's awful to see projects like the Atlantic Array get so close to reality and then fail.
On Wednesday, UKERC is launching its report on peak oil - the ‘assessment protocol’ via that link is a great lit review for the smorgasbord of energy future opinions. UKERC is, as far as I know, the first ‘mainstream’ academic body to examine the peak oil issue.
I’m attempting to incorporate energy into models of food production, though rather than directly asking about peak oil, the model will hopefully say something about what could happen, given x or y energy scenario. The aim is to (try to) keep it simple: most approaches to the problem, e.g. at the Oil Drum can feel a little like you’re being beaten to death with graphs.
Note: this is a long, rambling entry that swings from naval gazing to some interesting stuff on global energy futures.
There's a gymball in my bedroom: silver, 800mm wide. Having stared at it for a while, I started to wonder - if the sun were that gymball, how big would the Earth be? A few sums later I got 7mm. Some frantic measuring of dried pulses followed, and a chickpea emerged as the perfect - if slightly lumpy - candidate for sitting on the floor next to the gymball. There it sits still, so every night I can stare at it and mutter to myself, 'that's just stupid.' I include a photo of chickpea on gymball. But photos, this description - they don't do it justice. Find a gymball of equal size, get a chickpea: hold it between thumb and forefinger, having made sure to watch a video of the sun first. (Some would argue 'blue marble' better captures the wonder of it; each to their own.)
Incidentally, you can scale to anything you like at this website. At the scale above, chickpea would be 85 metres away from gymball.
I've also been trying to wrap my noggin around our place on Chickpea Earth. This has included an alarming assault on my sense of Earthly security, such as a list of all the ways in which we might never have existed. Some of these were covered in rather sensationalist tone by Tony Robinson's channel 4 series, 'Catastrophe Earth'. This quote sums up the general approach:
85000 years ago, humans were just heading out of Africa; the meteoric rise of our species makes us feel indestructible. Yet we are more vulnerable than we might care to imagine. We live on a thin crust that floats on a sea of pressurised molten rock and we rely on the proximity of a star to keep temperatures optimal for life. Meanwhile our planet moves through space, which is populated by numerous flying objects. | <urn:uuid:3dfddcbc-0de2-4257-a79c-321adea3d65e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.coveredinbees.org/taxonomy/term/59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284405.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00036-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952227 | 798 | 1.585938 | 2 |
|Application ||WB, ICC, E|
|Description||ROR1, a type I membrane protein, is a receptor protein tyrosine kinase that modulates neurite growth in the central nervous system. The ROR-family receptor tyrosine kinases consist of two structurally related proteins, ROR1 and ROR2. These proteins are characterized by having intracellular tyrosine kinase domains, which are highly related to Trk-family kinases, extracellular Frizzled-like cysteine-rich domains (CRDs) and Kringle domains. The ROR family members are highly conserved among species, such as C. elegans, Drosophila, Xenopus and mammals. ROR1 and ROR2 are both involved in organogenesis with particular emphasis in neuronal differentiation. Increased expression of ROR1 in acute lymphoblastic leukemias (ALLs) as well as chronic lymphocytic leukemias (CLLs) implicate this protein as a potential tool for targeted immunotherapy in these diseases.|
|Immunogen||Recombinant extracellular fragment of human ROR1 (aa30-406) fused with hIgGFc tag, expressed in HEK293 cells|
|Formulation||Ascitic fluid containing 0.03% sodium azide.|
|Other Names||Tyrosine-protein kinase transmembrane receptor ROR1, 188.8.131.52, Neurotrophic tyrosine kinase, receptor-related 1, ROR1, NTRKR1|
|Dilution||IF~~1/200 - 1/1000|
WB~~1/500 - 1/2000
|Storage||Maintain refrigerated at 2-8°C for up to 6 months. For long term storage store at -20°C in small aliquots to prevent freeze-thaw cycles.|
|Precautions||ROR1 Antibody is for research use only and not for use in diagnostic or therapeutic procedures.|
|Function||Tyrosine-protein kinase receptor whose role is not yet clear.|
|Cellular Location||Membrane; Single-pass type I membrane protein|
|Tissue Location||Expressed strongly in human heart, lung and kidney, but weakly in the CNS. Isoform Short is strongly expressed in fetal and adult CNS and in a variety of human cancers, including those originating from CNS or PNS neuroectoderm|
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There's always the Fun-fun telnet way. This should work in any linux terminal or XP terminal. If you use vista, telnet might not be installed depending on the version.
telnet <email server> <smtp port>
This is a test
The from and to can be the same. Though that makes for a pretty thin test. The two periods at the end depend on the SMTP server you use, it may be one it may be to. You should see a "250 OK - something" for each line, except data which should be a 354. Once your done type
This is basically what email clients do when they send mail, so you can tell where the problem is by what line you end at.
If its an authentication issue, you'll get asked for credentials or told whats missing.
If it fails at the Helo, you probably have a DN issue.
If its something else you're in for some fun.
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Dining Table – SOLD
A rare Cuban mahogany Gillow’s patent dining table circa 1800
The frame with eight attached reeded legs extends from the centre leaf which swivels to a right angle. the leaves are laid in numerical order along the frame and secured.
Height: 28.75ins (73cm) Width: 52ins (132cm)
Length fully extended: 136ins (346cm)
Richard and Robert Gillow of Oxford Street registered the patent in 1800 and the first table was ordered by Lord Strathmore in 1801.
Ref: Westminster Library Archive
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An internship is a period of work in an organization, that provides training and education for students who are currently in college. Marketing Internships can be conducted for high school, college, and university students. The experience usually involves shadowing and participating in activities related to the student’s field of study. The purpose of an internship is to allow students to gain hands-on experience before entering the workforce. An intern is another word for an apprentice, meaning that an intern is someone who learns by working with an experienced professional and focusing on a certain job.
Internships are an important part of your college career. There is no point in having a degree if you can’t build experience to back it up with. Internships also help build up your resume and experience. When applying for jobs, having relevant experience on your resume will make it easier for employers to see why they should hire you over other candidates who don’t have any experience in the field or industry they are applying for.
Marketing Internships are a great way to get your foot in the door, get some real-world experience, and build your network.
You’ll be able to sharpen your skills, gain valuable exposure to different industries, and make meaningful connections with people who can help you land a job after graduation.
Marketing internships typically offer you an opportunity to work on real projects under the guidance of an experienced marketing professional who can help you develop your skillset and make connections that will boost your career trajectory.
Marketing internships have become a very popular tool for professionals looking to enter the field of marketing. Though there are several types of marketing internships, the majority of these positions tend to boil down to three distinct internship roles: marketing assistant, marketing coordinator and marketing manager/intern.
TOP MARKETING INTERNSHIPS TO APPLY FOR
These internships give you experience and help you build up your portfolio.
If you’re looking for marketing internships, here are some of the best ones to apply for.
1. Google Marketing Internship Program
Google is a company that believes in the power of collaboration. We believe that when we combine our experience, skills, and knowledge as individuals, we can achieve more than we could alone. That’s why we created the Google Marketing Internship Program—a place where you can learn from some of the best minds in marketing while collaborating with other aspiring marketers just like you.
As an intern at Google, you’ll have access to some of the most cutting-edge technology and research in the world. You’ll work alongside people who are at the top of their field—and who love to share their expertise with others. You’ll get to see what it’s like on the inside of one of the most innovative companies in tech by participating in projects that are changing how marketers do business every day
2. Amazon Marketing Internship Program
The Amazon Marketing Internship Program is a unique opportunity for students to get hands-on experience working with one of the world’s largest and most successful e-commerce companies. As an intern, you will work on projects related to product research, competitive analysis, social media marketing campaigns, and more.
During this internship, you will work on projects that help Amazon’s businesses grow. You’ll learn how to use data and analytics to make decisions, which will be extremely valuable as your career progresses. You’ll also be able to build skills that aren’t taught in traditional classrooms, like how to run a successful campaign or manage a social media presence. You’ll have the chance to work on projects with different teams throughout Amazon (eCommerce Marketing, Vendor Marketing, Global Sponsored Products), so you can gain exposure to a variety of areas within marketing.
3. Facebook Marketing Internship Program
Facebook Marketing Internship Program is designed to allow you to work closely with a marketing team in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. You’ll be tasked with helping us develop and execute social media strategies that will help us reach our business goals and grow our brand.
Facebook is the largest social media platform in the world, with over 1.6 billion monthly active users and 2 billion daily active users. We’re looking for interns who are passionate about digital marketing and are excited to join our team of experts.
We offer a unique opportunity for students to gain practical experience in their field by working directly with our experts. Our internship program gives you the chance to apply your knowledge and learn from the best in your field while gaining real-world experience on one of the most popular platforms in history.
4. Adobe Marketing Internship Program
Adobe Marketing Internship Program is a program designed to help students pursue a career in marketing by offering them an opportunity to gain hands-on experience at Adobe. The internship program provides students with the opportunity to develop their skills in marketing and technology, as well as acquire knowledge about Adobe’s products and services.
The primary goal of the Adobe Marketing Internship Program is to provide students with valuable hands-on experience in different areas of marketing, such as branding, communications, digital media, social media, event marketing and planning, creative concepting, content strategy, and web design and development.
5. Microsoft Marketing Internship Program
The Microsoft Marketing Internship Program is a 12-week program designed to give you an immersive experience in marketing at Microsoft. You’ll be working with a mentor to learn about the wide range of marketing activities at Microsoft and gain hands-on experience with related projects. You’ll also have the opportunity to attend workshops and meet industry leaders, all while learning from one another and working on projects together.
As a part of this program, you’ll work with your mentor and other members of your team to complete real-world projects for our clients. You’ll develop skills that are practical, applicable, and valuable in any career path you choose after graduation.
Benefits of Marketing Internship
A marketing internship is an invaluable experience that can help you determine if a career in marketing is for you. If you’re considering a marketing internship, here are some reasons why you should consider applying:
1. Gain real-world experience
Many students get their first taste of what working in the corporate world is like during an internship or co-op program. These programs allow students to take on real responsibilities and develop skills that will help them succeed in their future careers. An internship can give you an edge over other job applicants who don’t have any hands-on experience with a company before they graduate.
2. Build connections
Make connections with professionals who can help you advance your career and network with other professionals who share similar interests and values. Your connections will prove valuable as you move through your career because they may provide opportunities for advancement or introductions to other companies where you might want to work someday.
3. Learn New Skillsets
Marketing is a very broad field, and there are many different roles within it. An internship will allow you to explore different aspects of marketing and find out which ones interest you most. Marketing internships offer a wide variety of opportunities to learn new skill sets that may not be available at your university or college campus.
Marketing internships are the best way to learn new skillsets and build a professional network. Marketing is an industry that’s always changing, and if you want to stay relevant, it’s key to keep learning new things. Marketing internships are perfect for gaining new skills such as understanding digital marketing, using social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram, or improving your written communication skills.
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Urban Sprawl Kills Endangered Florida Panthers
Marc Criffield clutches a small receiver in his hand and peers through the window of a single-engine Cessna. Suddenly, the device lets out an electric chirp. A second later, another chirp, and then another. Criffield has pinpointed FP197, a burly 4-and-a-half-year-old panther in the prime of its life. But something is wrong.
Instead of showing the endangered panther on the prowl, the signal is stationary. The cat might be sleeping through the sticky July heat, or the locator might be broken. But in his decades of tracking animals — from wolves along the Mexican border to foxes in the Great Plains — the 40-year-old scientist has learned to trust his gut.
"Knowing that he's a male with other males around that area, you get that sneaking suspicion something isn't right," Criffield says.
He has good reason to feel unsettled: This year has already been brutal for Florida's tiny panther population. By the end of June, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) recorded 14 deaths. If panther corpses keep piling up at that rate, it'll be the deadliest 12 months since detailed record-keeping began in 1981.
Even worse, a large percentage of those deaths — 50 percent this year and 54 percent between 2000 and 2011 — are due to an all-too-predictable cause: collisions with Florida drivers. As development encroaches farther into panther territory, experts worry that 2012 is a harbinger of even deadlier years to come. That hasn't stopped Gov. Rick Scott from reviving a controversial highway corridor plan and scaling back Florida's long-standing growth management laws.
"By far the single greatest threat to their survival is development and the degradation and fragmentation of habitat that accompanies it," says Elizabeth Fleming, a Florida representative for environmental group Defenders of Wildlife.
The iconic Florida panther, a subspecies of the more common American cougar, once wandered across eight states, from Texas to Arkansas to South Carolina. For millions of years, they evolved into remarkable predators. But their rapid decline began with the first white settlers, who were keen to kill any beasts threatening farmers. In 1887, the state put a $5 bounty on panther scalps, starting a hunting bonanza.
The real death knell, though, came not from guns but street pavers colonizing huge swaths of Florida in the post-World War II suburban boom. In 1967, panthers were placed on a federal endangered species list; some experts debated whether any of the big cats were left in the wild.
By the early '90s, scientists had found and tracked 30 survivors. The tiny population suffered rampant inbreeding, spurring heart problems and reproductive issues, so in 1995, biologists imported eight female cougars from Texas to diversify the gene pool. The plan helped, but almost 20 years later, the population is still minuscule — between 100 to 160 — clustered mostly in rural counties such as Collier, Lee, and Hendry.
Criffield has always been fascinated by hard-luck animals like the Florida panther. Raised in north Texas, he immersed himself in rugged wilderness at a young age. After graduating with degrees in genetics and zoology from Texas A&M, he bounced around, looking for his niche. He worked with coyotes, bears, and bats before heading to Oklahoma State University for a master's degree and research on local foxes.
After grad school, Criffield went to New Mexico to track endangered Mexican wolves before leaving five years ago for an FWC job in the Panhandle. At first, the gig was dull; he spent days fielding calls about trapping permits and bear sightings. So when he got an opportunity to move downstate and work with the elusive panther, Criffield jumped.
"I love the panther work," he says. "It has a purpose and I feel like I'm contributing to the greater good."
He quickly learned that tracking the elusive creatures is no easy task. It starts with a hunt for telltale signs like paw prints or fresh dung. Then a trained hound sniffs down the cat and forces it up a tree, where it's shot with a tranquilizer as FWC workers scurry below with a net the size of a bed sheet. If the panther doesn't drop, someone has to climb the tree and toss down the cat, which weighs up to 160 pounds. Vets and biologists then check its vitals, attach a collar and transponder, and tattoo its ear.
It sometimes takes weeks to find a single animal. "We usually average about a panther a week," Criffield says. "But we could find one in one week and then not find any for weeks. It's real sporadic."
Tough as it is, tracking is crucial for keeping an accurate population count. Lately, those numbers have been harrowing.
In 11 years, between 2000 and 2011, the FWC recorded 230 panther deaths. Vehicles were the leading cause by a wide margin, killing at least 126. But in just the past six months, from January through June, FWC has already documented 14 dead panthers, half of which were killed by cars.
While 2012 is on pace to be the worst on record, Criffield notes that panther deaths can occur in spurts. "Sometimes three dead panthers can be recovered in a week and then another won't be reported for three months," he says.
Either way, activists argue there's a direct link between those deaths and Florida's ever-expanding push into panther habitat. Many point to Ave Maria — the Catholic college built in 2005 smack in the middle of cat territory — and the outskirts of Naples as the worst offenders.
Scott's administration has done little to help that trend. In June 2011, he approved sweeping changes to a long-standing growth management system, making it easier for developers to push into once-protected areas. Now, his Department of Transportation wants to ram the 120-mile Heartland Parkway through the middle of the state, from Polk County to Naples. Another plan calls for a massive interchange at I-75 and Everglades Boulevard, just down the road from a protected panther habitat. More car deaths are inevitable, activists say.
"Panthers evolved to be one of the fastest animals out there. The idea that a car is faster than them just doesn't fit within their hardwiring," says Matt Schwartz, executive director of the South Florida Wildlands Association.
Cars aren't the only deadly threat from sprawl, though. Territorial beefs erupt among the cats as they compete in tighter spaces. Each panther is a loner, preferring 200 miles to itself. When two males cross, it's likely to get ugly. Since 2000, at least 39 panthers have killed each other.
A host of other hazards also endanger the creatures. A wildfire in 2011 killed four cubs, for instance, and another died of mercury poisoning. A few brazen hunters even take shots at the animals. In July, Todd Benfield, a 45-year-old man from Naples, was sentenced to 60 days of house arrest and fined $5,000 for shooting one with a bow.
But those perils aren't preventable, according to experts like Criffield. Instead, they focus on an ultimate goal: establishing three separate populations of at least 240 cats, with many north of the Caloosahatchee River, cutting from Lake Okeechobee across to Fort Myers.
"That's the only way we can expand the population to a point where they can be removed from the endangered species list," Criffield says.
That's easier said than done. There hasn't been a female panther seen north of the Caloosahatchee since 1973. Conservationists are fighting to secure reserves along the river, including 1,270 acres in Glades County purchased in May by the Nature Conservancy.
In the meantime, Criffield and his colleagues keep a close eye on the cats. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, FWC charters a small plane to locate the 20 or so panthers fitted with tracking collars, including FP197.
Criffield has particularly high hopes for the male cat — it's big, young, and strong, the kind of animal that could survive a trek north of the Caloosahatchee. That's why, as the Cessna hums through the air this past July 18, he's so worried by the errant signal from FP197's collar.
After the plane lands at Naples Municipal Airport, Criffield loads up an ATV and heads toward the coordinates. As he rolls through the grass, his stomach drops: He spots the cat's tawny fur, thrown into stark relief against the dense brush.
FP197 is dead.
This time, there are no obvious signs of what killed it. There's no evidence of a bloody fight, no bullet holes, and no mangled flesh from a car accident. Criffield rolls out a tarp and straps the 15th dead panther of 2012 to the back of his ATV. He'll have to ship the corpse to Gainesville for a necropsy to figure out the cause of death.
"It's all scientifically based, and anything we get is data, good or bad," Criffield says, trying to remain objective.
Then his voice wavers. "But yeah, I was bummed to [pull] 197 out of the woods... You remember things about these cats."
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The goal of the League of American Bicyclists is to make bicycling safe and comfortable for people of all ages in all communities, but we recognize that youth, women and people of color are underrepresented in many bike advocacy efforts and local transportation decisions.
Equity issues have been a source of discussion in the bicycle movement for many years. However, there has been a lack of dedicated staff capacity, direct knowledge, and guidance from local leaders of color in engaging in a sustained, strategic dialogue about these issues. Currently there are few resources to address disparities on the ground and equity as it relates specifically to bicycle advocacy.
The League's initiative works to innovate solutions to this problem by working directly with diverse leaders to change the culture and programming of the League itself, which will contribute to transforming cycling advocacy at the local and national level.
Through its Equity Initiative, the League engages leaders from traditionally underrepresented demographics and bridges the current gap between diverse communities and bicycle advocates. By adding staff capacity, undertaking an internal equity assessment and transformation process, and partnering with equity advocates in strategic and sustained relationships, the League will leverage its position as the longest-standing and most-trusted source of bicycle advocacy resources to develop diverse leadership and cultivate effective local partnerships to advance inclusion and, ultimately, equity in the bike movement.
The League has already committed resources to this effort. In 2013, the League hired an Equity and Outreach Fellow, Hamzat Sani, who has experience organizing in underserved communities and bridging the gap between advocates of color and traditional bicycle organizations, to guide this effort in its first six months. The League established an Equity Advisory Council and brought together the members of the Council to meet in person at the 2013 and 2014 National Bike Summits. We continue to move forward with specific goal-setting via ongoing email discussion and monthly conference calls.
In November 2013, Dr. Adonia Lugo became the League's first Equity Initiative Manager thanks to generous support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The League Board of Directors has adopted equity as one of our top priorities, and our commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion resonates through our mission and vision.
By Hamzat Sani
In July 1895, a young bi-racial woman entered the gathering of the League of American Wheelmen (LAW) in Asbury Park, New Jersey, seeking to gain entry as a card carrying member. As simple as this routine had been for the few years she had been a member of the LAW this time was extraordinarily different — this time Katherine “Kittie” Knox expected to be barred because of her skin color.
It had only been a year since Colonel William W. Watts of Louisville, Kentucky, had finally completed his successful campaign of establishing a resolution in the National LAW Constitution that relegated membership to “none but white persons.” The resolution, passed at the League’s National Assembly February 20, 1894, by a 127 to 54 secret vote, took three attempts to finally pass (starting with an effort in 1892) even with unanimous support from the League’s southern membership. Watts campaign to establish a color bar in the League was one of persistence, dedication and cunning.
When Watts initially introduced the idea in 1892 the northern faction of the League was able to defeat the measure, but by 1893 the writing was on the wall. Watts idea of color bar came during the post-reconstruction era when anti-black sentiment was at its highest in the South and at its most indifferent in the North. After the 1893 vote on the color bar issue proved to be fruitless, Watts lacked the ⅔ majority needed to pass the measure, the Colonel returned to Louisville to make sure the next would be clearly in his favor. Watts secured a largely ambiguous letter of support from the all-black Union Cycling Club in Louisville. Watts used the letter as proof that black cyclists were in support of a color bar as well, when in reality the leader of Union had only agreed to the letter after pressure from Watts and his cohorts in the city, as well as the anti-black faction making it clear that no southern members of the L.A.W. would be black. Watts had successfully established the “whites only” clause in his club’s constitution already. Along with this “letter of support,” Watts also had home field advantage for the 1894 Annual Assembly, which he utilized expertly by making sure to entertain and gift the visiting Wheelmen with whiskey.
The resolution was met with much opposition and controversy in the north resulting in a resolution by the Massachusetts Legislature denouncing the L.A.W. color bar. Many northern clubs sought to ignore it or were indifferent about enforcing the color bar. Some, like the Boston delegation to the League’s 1895 Meet in Asbury Park, were determined to make some waves about the matter. Boston had quite a bit to be upset about at the 1895 gathering. They had lost out to Asbury Park in the voting for the location of the very meet they had to travel to attend. The Boston delegation had wanted badly to host the meet in their hometown going as far as to lobby Louis C. Jacquish, Chief Counsel of the Illinois L.A.W. to cease his motion to have the “white only” clause struck from the constitution at the previous gathering for fear that such a motion would cause southern members to vote for Asbury Park as the next host city. Jacquish abandoned his motion and Boston still lost to Asbury Park. On top of that the delegation had posted a failing group vote in opposition to the color bar the previous year. With the Boston delegation came the Riverside Cycling Club, the city’s all black cycling club, a black politician by the name of Robert Teamoh, who was the author of the resolution denouncing the color bar in Massachusetts’ Legislature and of course Kittie Knox, already known in the cycling world for her dashing cycling costumes and affinity for men’s knickerbockers. Needless to say Boston came to Asbury Park with not only a chip on its shoulder but with intentions to oppose recent developments within the national L.A.W. body that were opposed to their relatively anti-racist principles.
While there seem to be some discrepancies regarding whether or not Ms. Knox was granted entry most reliable accounts maintain that she was allowed to enter the Wheelmen’s gathering and was in fact one of the highlights of the ball that evening. Knox had been a member of L.A.W. prior to the 1894 bar of non-whites and thus was still a legitimate member and could continue to be a member for as long as she wished. The color bar was arranged, interestingly enough, to bar black from becoming new members but allow for non-whites to race in League sanctioned races. This partial barring allowed the League to certify races with big name stars like Major Taylor and even declare him a national and world champion without the possibility of Taylor’s voice being heard as part of the Wheelmen’s membership.
While Kittie Knox was able to have her day at the ball, the generation of black cyclists that had been proud L.A.W. members passed, with Knox herself passing just a few years after the Asbury Park showdown. The League of American Wheelmen would thrive and then disappear over the years, being reincarnated a few times. The story, and perhaps even the existence of the 1894 color bar, must have been forgotten in the passing of time. The ban would linger until 1999 when League of American Bicyclist’s President Earl Jones signed a resolution revoking the 1894 decision and issuing an apology on behalf of the League, as well as a posthumous membership to Major Taylor. Jones, upon passing the resolution, stated: “Finally, I hope that the League, by taking this step, can lead cycling into more diverse and representative participation.”
In the 119 years since the color line was drawn, cycling is still mostly regarded as a white male endeavor whether in the sport or advocacy world. In the sport there are only handful of cyclists of color in the pro circuit, while in advocacy bicycle lanes have become synonymous to the pushing out of lower-income and communities of color called gentrification. In the 14 years since Earl Jones signed the resolution officially opening the League up for all people to join there has been little done programmatically to reach the goal of a “more diverse and representative participation.”
Earlier this year The League formed the ten member Equity Advisory Council in response to a persistent call by advocates around the nation to address the unequal representation in cycling advocacy. The Council is charged with overseeing the League’s Equity efforts and ensuring that they fit within the scope of the organization’s mission and are truly beneficial and relevant to the communities not normally seen as part of cycling advocacy. The Council will see the League through an internal assessment of how it can perform better on the issue of equitable representation and also develop tools for other organizations seeking to engage communities in equitable programming as well.
Explorations into an organization's participation in exclusionary tactics in its past can often be painful or unpleasant however those that have the courage to seek out their faults, identify them and act upon them to their fullest capability are the organizations that thrive with the respect of their membership.
The League's 10-member Equity Advisory Council will guide our work to advance equity at the League and in the movement at large
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Helping the Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS) Leverage S-100 Data
With the help of the Electronic Chart Centre (ECC) and PRIMAR, the Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS) successfully leverages the new S-100 paradigm with a brand-new service for S-100 data service and products.
The world of hydrographic data is slowly and steadily adapting to a new, digital future. After decades of relying on S-57 data for navigation, a new and more versatile standard is emerging – the S-100 standard – promising to address current navigational and non-navigational needs through a variety of hydrographic-related digital data sources and products. In this industry-wide transition, Canada is at the forefront. With the help of the Electronic Chart Centre (ECC)/PRIMAR and Teledyne CARIS, a leading developer of marine mapping software, the Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS) now efficiently leverages the opportunities inherent in the coming S-100 decade.
Photo: Display of Bathymetric Surface Data (S-102) produced by the Canadian Hydrographic Service for Saint Lawrence River, in an ECC developed viewer tool. (Source: Electronic Chart Centre).
Developing Innovative Services for S-100 Products
With its vast maritime terrain and the world’s longest coastline, not to mention a long history focusing on innovation and technology, Canada is uniquely positioned to lead the way in the realisation of the S-100 standard. Wanting to demonstrate the benefits inherent in the new S-100 standard and figuring out how to best implement and operationalise the standard, the CHS reached out to ECC/PRIMAR and Teledyne CARIS for help to realise two primary ambitions:
To demonstrate the benefits inherent in the new S-100 standard by developing an innovative service for hydrographic data and leveraging the latest technological approaches available for the hydrographic industry.
To reduce the time from hydrographic data is produced to the data is available for distribution to end-users as much as possible.
Together, these ambitions would help realise significant benefits for the maritime community, ultimately strengthening navigation safety, unlocking the potential of marine geospatial data and providing dynamic data for improved environmental and situational understanding for navigators and pilots.
From S-100 Data Production to Data Delivery
To develop and implement a new and innovative data service for the delivery of S-100 products, the CHS, Teledyne CARIS and ECC/PRIMAR initiated a collaborative project in 2018 to efficiently distribute high-resolution bathymetric data (S-102 data) to end-users. For the project, the CHS took on the role of S-100 producer, generating hydrographic data from implemented sensors in various rivers and waters. Teledyne CARIS provided the back-end infrastructure to efficiently move the data generated by the CHS to the distribution network supplied by ECC/PRIMAR, who quickly distributes the S-100 products to end-users.
Working closely together, the project team leveraged the latest technological approaches to collectively develop an end-to-end S-100 service consisting of software that ensures efficient uploading, hosting, managing and delivering of S-100 products and a subscription service that quickly disseminates the latest and best S-100 products to end-users. On the one hand, the service leverages a solution that automatically creates S-100 products based on data generated by the CHS and automatically uploads these products into a new and bespoke cloud solution developed by Teledyne CARIS. On the other, PRIMAR accesses the latest and most up-to-date products uploaded in the cloud solution and makes them available in the PRIMAR Chart Catalogue, a subscription-based application that delivers ENCs and S-100 products to both distributors and end-users quickly and efficiently.
S-102 and S-111 Data Available
The project is now in its operational phase, and the service is live and accessible for distributors, value-added resellers and end-users. Currently, the service focuses on a few primary products but will continue to grow to support additional S-100 products in the near future. The following S-100 products are available today:
S-102 Bathymetric Surface Data supports safety at sea and enables precise navigation by giving end-users access to detailed bathymetric data and making it possible to generate 3D visualisations of underwater ocean floors.
S-111 Surface Currents Data supports safety of navigation by providing information on surface currents that may influence vessel motions.
Combined, these datasets provide end-users with access to information on depth, bottom morphology and all other relevant data necessary for efficient and safe navigation.
Realising the Benefits of S-100 Data for Hydrographic and Maritime Communities
The CHS now offer easy access to detailed and high-resolution hydrographic and bathymetric data to maritime and hydrographic communities. And end-users are increasingly benefitting from a service that considers the entire value chain – all the way from S-100 data production to data delivery.
For the hydrographic and maritime communities, this quickly translates into significant benefits:
Easy access to detailed, high-resolution data: The service ensures that data move efficiently through the value chain to the end-user, while simultaneously taking data integrity and security into consideration. Furthermore, its real-time capabilities make sure that the data is always up-to-date and allows end-users to access the data with a simple click.
Improved safety at sea: As the service increases the accessibility of high-quality and high-resolution hydrographic and bathymetric data, navigators and pilots can enhance their situational understanding during voyages and port approaches.
Reduced fuel emissions: Efficient dissemination of S-100 data may help pilots and navigators plan for shorter and more optimal routes, ultimately reducing CO2 and NOx emissions by improving fuel-efficiency.
Cost reductions: Considering its potential to improve route planning capabilities, S-100 data may help navigators utilise navigable waters better than previously possible. Previously unnavigable waters may prove to be navigable as detailed and high-resolution data shows that current no-go areas indeed are sailable. This insight will help navigators plan shorter navigation routes and, in many cases, better utilise vessel loading capacity.
Chart distributors, OEMs and end-users looking to leverage the opportunities of S-100 datasets and products need to look no further. The technology necessary to ensure efficient dissemination of S-100 data is already available and ready to be leveraged by anyone who recognises its value. If you are interested in investigating the opportunities of the brand-new S-100 service, get access to a 3 Month Free Trial by following the link below:
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Water vapor sorption in salt hydrates is one of the most promising means for compact, low loss, and long-term storage of solar heat in the built environment. One of the most interesting salt hydrates for compact seasonal heat storage is magnesium sulfate heptahydrate . This paper describes the characterization of to examine its suitability for application in a seasonal heat storage system for the built environment. Both charging (dehydration) and discharging (hydration) behaviors of the material were studied using thermogravimetric differential scanning calorimetry, X-ray diffraction, particle distribution measurements, and scanning electron microscope. The experimental results show that can be dehydrated at temperatures below , which can be reached by a medium temperature (vacuum tube) collector. Additionally, the material was able to store , almost nine times more energy than can be stored in water as sensible heat. On the other hand, the experimental results indicate that the release of the stored heat is more difficult. The amount of water taken up and the energy released by the material turned out to be strongly dependent on the water vapor pressure, temperature, and the total system pressure. The results of this study indicate that the application of at atmospheric pressure is problematic for a heat storage system where heat is released above using a water vapor pressure of 1.3 kPa. However, first experiments performed in a closed system at low pressure indicate that a small amount of heat can be released at and a water vapor pressure of 1.3 kPa. If a heat storage system has to operate at atmospheric pressure, then the application of for seasonal heat storage is possible for space heating operating at and a water vapor pressure of 2.1 kPa.
Characterization of Hydrate for Thermochemical Seasonal Heat Storage
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Germany bans public gatherings of more than 2 people
The German government is banning public gatherings of more than two people to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus outbreak, stopping just short of confining people to their homes Bloomberg reports.
Driving the news: Chancellor Angela Merkel is in quarantine after coming in contact with a doctor who tested positive for the virus.
Why it matters: Countries across Europe, which has become the epicenter of the pandemic, have imposed stringent social distancing measures in an effort to stop the coronavirus from spreading as it has in Italy, where more than 4,800 people have died. Merkel has thus far opposed a full lockdown.
- Families and people who live together will be exempt from the rule, which will be enforced by German police. The agreement was struck after a meeting between Merkel, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and the leaders of the 16 German states.
- The virus has infected almost 24,000 people in Germany and has claimed at least 92 lives, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
The big picture: Like other countries around the world, Germany is adopting policies to abate the economic damage caused by the outbreak.
- The government is on track to adopt fiscal measures worth up to €500 billion ($538 billion) to support its economy, which is Europe's largest, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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- What are the 4 parts of the problem solving process?
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- What is problem solving tools and techniques?
- What are some problem solving tools?
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- What is problem solving process?
- What is problem solving model?
Is always possible to identify all the causes of a problem completely?
Weegy: It is always possible to identify all the causes of a problem completely. False. Weegy: Staying objective allows you to better assess the results of an action plan.
What are the 4 parts of the problem solving process?
Problem Analysis. Generating possible Solutions. Analyzing the Solutions. Selecting the best Solution(s).
When trying to gather information in order to identify a problem it is important t?
When trying to gather information in order to identify a problem, it is important to find reliable sources.
Which career choice could negatively impact your future health and wellness?
A manual labor job which strains your body, a white collar job with high pay but tons of stress, or a sales job with the possibility of no retirement benefits are career choices which could negatively impact your future health and wellness.
What is problem solving tools and techniques?
9 essential problem solving tools: the ultimate guide
- Fishbone diagrams.
- Strategy maps.
- Mental maps.
- Idea maps.
- Concept maps.
- Layered process audit software.
- Charting software.
What are some problem solving tools?
5 Root Cause Analysis Tools for More Effective Problem-Solving
- Pareto Chart.
- The 5 Whys.
- Fishbone Diagram.
- Scatter Diagram.
- Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
What is the purpose of using problem solving techniques?
Problem-solving gives us a mechanism for identifying these things, figuring out why they are broken and determining a course of action to fix them. Addressing risk: Humans have learned to identify trends and developed an awareness of cause-and-effect relationships in their environment.
What is problem solving process?
Problem solving is the act of defining a problem; determining the cause of the problem; identifying, prioritizing, and selecting alternatives for a solution; and implementing a solution. The problem-solving process.
What is problem solving model?
The problem solving model is a simple cycle used to solve problems and challenges. The aim of the problem solving model is to provide a simple clear strategy for tackling problem solving situations. ... Do: Select the best possible solution and try to solve the problem.
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AIM: closing an anaesthetised wound using interrupted sutures using an aseptic technique.
Introduction to patient
- State your name and role and confirm patient’s identity
- State purpose of interaction and gain informed consent
- Check patient’s understanding eg ‘Have you ever had this done before?/ Do you know what this will involve?’
- Explain procedure
- Mention risks: bleeding, infection, pain
Establish site and assess the wound
Screening questions: there are eight...
- How did you acquire the wound?
- Has the wound been x-rayed? What did the x-ray report show?
- Has the wound been cleaned?
- Has the wound been anaesthetised?
- Have you had a tetanus jab?
- Are you allergic to latex?
- Do you have any trouble with needles? You can advise the patient to look away when suturing or distract them with conversation
- Are you on any blood-thinning medication?
- Suture material
- 0.9% Sodium Chloride
- Eye protection
- Clean trolley
- Sterile gloves
- Suture instruments – needle holder, scissors, toothed forceps, dressing forceps.
- Sharps bin
- Wash hands with soap and water, including distal third of forearms
- Clean the trolley and gather equipment.
- Open suture pack correctly using sterile technique and unfold the sterile field
- Check expiry date of appropriate suture material
- Open suture material and sterile gloves onto unfolded sterile field.
- Put on sterile gloves. In the event that you have to prepare the wound yourself:
Administer local anaesthetic (LA)Remove debris with forceps
Clean wound with normal saline or betadine soaked gauze; starting from the wound edges in an outwards motion away from the wound.
Dry with clean gauze
- Check expiry date and dose of LA with another health professional
- Draw up 5ml using 21 gauge needle
- Dispose needle in the sharps bin
- Administer LA with 25 gauge needle
- Lay sterile field with an appropriate window over the wound
- With forceps, press gently on either side of the wound to ensure that the anaesthetic has taken effect (this can take 5-10 minutes), although the patient may feel pressure.
- Grasp needle at 2/3 distance from its tip with needle holder.
- Insert the first suture in the middle of the wound and then continue dividing into equal sections – approximately 5-10mm apart.
- Holding the skin with toothed forceps, pierce the skin at a 90° angle not closer than 5mm from the wound edge, following the curvature line of the needle as it passes through the tissue, into the middle of the wound.
- Remove the needle and remount it in the needle holder before taking a corresponding bite on the other side of the wound. Ensure needle is not touched to avoid needle stick injury, and is handled only by toothed forceps whist repositioning it in the needle holder
- Pull the suture through until a short length remains.
- Tie 3 surgeon’s knots (instrument tie) ensuring that all knots end up on the same side of the wound. Ensure the opposing edges meet well in the middle without excess tension.
- Cut ends of suture to an appropriate length ~5- 10mm
- Dispose of sharps straight away in the sharps bin
- Take note of the number of sutures before applying a non-adherent dressing.
- Explain to patient what you have done
- Instruct the patient appropriately, including precautions and aftercare.
- Keep wound dry- take showers instead of baths and avoid swimming
- Educate patient on signs of infection: hot, pain, redness, swelling around wound site ± fever, pus. Tell them to visit A&E if any of these signs appear.
- Provide clear instructions about the time and place of suture removal
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- Attend to patient’s comfort throughout the procedure
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Measurements of Ultrasound Attenuation Coefficient at Various Suspended Sediment Concentrations
Lee, Changil ; Choi, Jee Woong ;
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea, volume 33, issue 1, 2014, Pages 1~9
DOI : 10.7776/ASK.2014.33.1.001
Coastal water including estuaries has distinctive environmental characteristics where sediments are transported and deposited by flowing river water, providing an environment in which fluid mud layers can be formed. Acoustic method is mostly used to detect or monitor the fluid mud layer. However, since sound propagating in this layer suffers severe attenuation, it is important to estimate the accurate attenuation coefficient for various concentrations of fluid mud layer for the successful use of the acoustic method. In this paper, measurement results of attenuation coefficient for 3.5, 5, and 7.5 MHz ultrasounds were presented. The measurements were made in a small-size water tank in which suspended sediment samples with various sediment concentrations were formed using kaolinite powder. The results were compared to the model predictions obtained by attenuation coefficient model in which the mean grain size (called as Mass-median-diameter, D50) was used as input parameter. There were reasonable agreements between measured attenuation coefficients and model outputs predicted using the particle range of D50
. The comparison results imply that although the suspended sediments consist of various-sized particles, sound attenuation might be greatly influenced by amount of particle with a size which has a larger attenuation than that of any particle in the suspended sediments for the frequency used.
Experimental Study on Underwater Transient Noise Generated by Water-Entry Impact
Jung, Youngcheol ; Seong, Woojae ; Lee, Keunhwa ; Kim, Hyoungrok ;
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea, volume 33, issue 1, 2014, Pages 10~20
DOI : 10.7776/ASK.2014.33.1.010
To study the water-entry impact noise, on-board experiment using a small launcher firing various objects was performed in the Yellow Sea. As the launcher fires a cylindrical object from the ship vertically, generated noise is measured with a hydrophone on the starboard of Chung-hae, Marine surveyor. Three types of cylindrical objects, which have noses of flat-faced, conical, and hemisphere, were used during the experiment. The measured noise exhibits a time-dependency which can be divided into three phases: (1) initial impact phase, (2) open cavity flow phase, (3) cavity collapse and bubble oscillation phase. In most cases, the waveform of bubble oscillation phase is dominant rather than that of initial impact phase. Pinch-off time, where a cavity begins to collapse, occurs at 0.18 ~ 0.2 second and the average lasting time of bubble was 0.9 ~ 1.3 second. The energy of water-entry impact noise is focused in the frequency region lower than 100 Hz, and the generated noise is influenced by the nose shapes, object mass, and launching velocity. As a result, energy spectral density on the bubble frequency is higher in the order of flat-faced, conical, hemisphere nose, and the increase of initial energy raises the energy spectral density on the bubble frequency in the cylinder body of same shape. Finally, we compare the measurements with the simulated signals and spectrum based on the bubble explosion physics, and obtain satisfactory agreements between them.
Visualization of Temperature Elevation Due to Focused Ultrasound in Dissipative Acoustic Medium
Kim, Myoungseok ; Kim, Jungsoon ; Kim, Moojoon ; Ha, Kanglyeol ;
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea, volume 33, issue 1, 2014, Pages 21~30
DOI : 10.7776/ASK.2014.33.1.021
The temperature change due to focused ultrasound in dissipative acoustic medium is very important because it provides us much information. To measure the temperature change inside of the dissipative acoustic medium non-invasively, we adopt a temperature sensitive film which has thermochromic particles with critical temperature of
. As a dissipative acoustic medium, agar layer is chosen in the study. The temperature change due to the ultrasound was measured depending on the concentration of the sugar in the agar layer. The color change on the film due to the ultrasound was investigated when the concentration of sugar was from 25% to 40%. As the result, there were rapid increases of discolored area on the film within 2~5 second after the ultrasound driving and the increasing rates decreased after the period. To compare the simulation results were also shown. However in the simulated result, the discolored areas linearly increased from start to 10 seconds. The reason of the differences between the experimental results and simulated ones is that the change of thermal conductivity and heat capacity of the medium were not considered in the simulation program.
Calibration System for Angular Vibration Using Precision Rotary Encoder
Nam, Seunghwan ; Baik, Kyungmin ; Cheung, Wan-Sup ;
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea, volume 33, issue 1, 2014, Pages 31~39
DOI : 10.7776/ASK.2014.33.1.031
In this paper, two calibration methods for angular vibration pickups using a precision rotary encoder are proposed. The KRISS (Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science) primary angular vibration calibration system and the calibration procedures are briefly explained. The rotary encoder is shown to be calibrated in two methods: The one is to use the laser interferometer to calibrate the rotary encoder under test and the other is to exploit the certificate of the encoder supplied. Complex sensitivities measured from the first are shown to be less than 0.1 % difference in magnitude and
difference in phase shift in reference to those of the primary calibration system. Their expanded uncertainties were observed to be less than 0.6 % in magnitude and
in phase shift over the range of 0.4 to 200 Hz. Under the same calibration conditions, complex sensitivities evaluated by the second method are shown be 0.1 % difference in magnitude and
difference in phase shift in reference to those of the primary calibration system. Their expanded uncertainties were seen to be less than 4.8 % in magnitude and
in phase shift.
Analysis of Relative Contributions of Tonal Noise Sources in Volute Tongue Region of a Centrifugal Fan
Heo, Seung ; Kim, Daehwan ; Cheong, Cheolung ;
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea, volume 33, issue 1, 2014, Pages 40~47
DOI : 10.7776/ASK.2014.33.1.040
Interaction between the unsteady flow emitted from the blade of the centrifugal fan and the volute tongue region of fan duct is known as the main noise source of the centrifugal fan. In this paper, the relative contributions of the volute tongue region of the centrifugal fan is analyzed to utilize as the foundation data of low noise design. The internal hybrid CAA (Computational Aero-Acoustics) method is used to predict noise radiated from the main noise source. This method is the noise prediction technique using CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics), Acoustic analogy, and BEM(Boundary Element Method). The relative contributions of the centrifugal fan volute tongue region using the hybrid CAA method show that the region between the cut-off and the scroll has high contribution than the region between the cut-off and the outlet and the hub region of blade has high contribution than the shroud region of blade. These results is utilized as the important data for the development of low noise centrifugal fan.
Mitigation of Inter-Symbol Interference in Underwater Acoustic Communication Using Spatial Filter
Eom, Min-Jeong ; Park, Ji-Sung ; Ji, Yoon-Hee ; Kim, J.S. ;
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea, volume 33, issue 1, 2014, Pages 48~53
DOI : 10.7776/ASK.2014.33.1.048
The underwater acoustic communication (UAC) is characterized by doubly spread channel. It is included in the time-variant doppler shift and delay-time spreads due to multiple paths. To compensate such distorted signals, various techniques including time-reversal processing, spatial diversity, phase estimator, and equalizer are being applied. In this paper, a spatial filter based on the beamforming is proposed as a method to mitigate such inter-symbol interferences that are generated in time-varying multipath channels. The proposed technique realizes coherent communications by steering the direction of the desired signals and improves the performance of UAC by increasing the signal-to-interference plus noise ratio using the array gain.
CASA Based Approach to Estimate Acoustic Transfer Function Ratios
Shin, Minkyu ; Ko, Hanseok ;
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea, volume 33, issue 1, 2014, Pages 54~59
DOI : 10.7776/ASK.2014.33.1.054
Identification of RTF (Relative Transfer Function) between sensors is essential to multichannel speech enhancement system. In this paper, we present an approach for estimating the relative transfer function of speech signal. This method adapts a CASA (Computational Auditory Scene Analysis) technique to the conventional OM-LSA (Optimally-Modified Log-Spectral Amplitude) based approach. Evaluation of the proposed approach is performed under simulated stationary and nonstationary WGN (White Gaussian Noise). Experimental results confirm advantages of the proposed approach.
Concepts of Sound Control System Using Absolute Sound Level
Kyon, Doo-Heon ; Bae, Myung-Jin ;
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea, volume 33, issue 1, 2014, Pages 60~67
DOI : 10.7776/ASK.2014.33.1.060
The purpose of this study is to suggest a new concept of the absolute sound level system in order to basically solve all the irrational aspects from the mastering stage to the output stage during the process of producing a sound source. Through this absolute sound level system, all the input absolute sound levels of sound sources become standardized based on 60 dB(S), and then sound source producers can implement a sound level they intend by using the differential sound level tag. Besides, by matching the output absolute sound level with the input absolute sound level, a target sound level can be implemented as a listener intends. With this system introduced, sound source producers are able to focus on the completion of a sound source itself without an unnecessary competition for sound levels, and only by inputting the differential reduction tag, they can implement a sound level balance as intended. At the same time, listeners are able to appreciate all kinds of sound sources fit for the standard of absolute s ound levels they want to listen to, without a process of trial and error, no matter what kinds of listening environments and sound systems they have.
Histogram Equalization Using Centroids of Fuzzy C-Means of Background Speakers' Utterances for Majority Voting Based Speaker Identification
Kim, Myung-Jae ; Yang, Il-Ho ; Yu, Ha-Jin ;
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea, volume 33, issue 1, 2014, Pages 68~74
DOI : 10.7776/ASK.2014.33.1.068
In a previous work, we proposed a novel approach of histogram equalization using a supplement set which is composed of centroids of Fuzzy C-Means of the background utterances. The performance of the proposed method is affected by the size of the supplement set, but it is difficult to find the best size at the point of recognition. In this paper, we propose a histogram equalization using a supplement set for majority voting based speaker identification. The proposed method identifies test utterances using a majority voting on the histogram equalization methods with various sizes of supplement sets. The proposed method is compared with the conventional feature normalization methods such as CMN(Cepstral Mean Normalization), MVN(Mean and Variance Normalization), and HEQ(Histogram Equalization) and the histogram equalization method using a supplement set.
Packet Loss Concealment Algorithm Based on Robust Voice Classification in Noise Environment
Kim, Hyoung-Gook ; Ryu, Sang-Hyeon ;
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea, volume 33, issue 1, 2014, Pages 75~80
DOI : 10.7776/ASK.2014.33.1.075
The quality of real-time Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network is affected by network impariments such as delays, jitters, and packet loss. This paper proposes a packet loss concealment algorithm based on voice classification for enhancing VoIP speech quality. In the proposed method, arriving packets are classified by an adaptive thresholding approach based on the analysis of multiple features of short signal segments. The excellent classification results are used in the packet loss concealment. Additionally, linear prediction-based packet loss concealment delivers high voice quality by alleviating the metallic artifacts due to concealing consecutive packet loss or recovering lost packet.
A Musical Genre Classification Method Based on the Octave-Band Order Statistics
Seo, Jin Soo ;
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea, volume 33, issue 1, 2014, Pages 81~86
DOI : 10.7776/ASK.2014.33.1.081
This paper presents a study on the effectiveness of using the spectral and the temporal octave-band order statistics for musical genre classification. In order to represent the relative disposition of the harmonic and non-harmonic components, we utilize the octave-band order statistics of power spectral distribution. Experiments on the widely used two music datasets were performed; the results show that the octave-band order statistics improve genre classification accuracy by 2.61 % for one dataset and 8.9 % for another dataset compared with the mel-frequency cepstral coefficients and the octave-band spectral contrast. Experimental results show that the octave-band order statistics are promising for musical genre classification. | <urn:uuid:1d014dd1-e4d2-4b3e-a870-1a3608a924cd> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.koreascience.or.kr/journal/JournalIssueList.jsp?kojic=GOHHBH&volno=33&issno=1&cnov_no=&year_GB=2014 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719079.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00033-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.877027 | 3,187 | 1.867188 | 2 |
Increased Proactive Transparency – one more step towards accountable public sector
The right to freedom of information is fundamental human right recognized in international law and guaranteed with the Macedonian Constitution. Freedom of information is connected to better transparency and holding the government to account. The Law on free access to public information provides solid basis for requesting and obtaining information from the institutions i.e. enabling reactive transparency. However, transparency and access to information is also measured by making information available proactively, on the web pages of the institutions.
Article 10 from the Law on free access to public information sets the standards for transparency i.e. lists the type of information that should be made available to the public by information holders. However, the law does not define whether this information should be made public by default i.e. to be published proactively online, or only if requested by citizens. The Commission for Protection of the Right to Free Access to Public Information has published Guidelines for proactive transparency, as a two-page document stating the benefits of this proactive transparency. However, the document is not obligatory for the holders of information and there is no information whether the Commission promotes and advocates for implementation of those provisions.
Research on the topic so far shows that Macedonia ranks very low when it comes to proactive transparency. The regional project ACTION SEE,1 showed that Macedonian ministries have been assessed to be the most closed in the entire region, with average of 32% completion under the general indicators of openness.2 The rate for access to information is 37% as the lowest rate in the region.3 The NGO ESE from Skopje is also monitoring reactive and proactive transparency. Their research showed that in 2016, institutions published only 15% of the monitored documents which was even lower by 5% when compared with the availability of documents in the previous 2015 year.4 According to ESE, the Law on free access to public information is being implemented only partially, while the level of proactive transparency is much lower than reactive transparency.5
Looking at the websites of the ministries, it is evident that there is no unified approach towards promoting the right to access to information. Only few institutions have direct link/banner that leads to more information about requesting information (including information about the official mediator persons for implementation of the right to free access to information, the procedure for requesting information, list of available information etc). These institutions are the Government, Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning. A more common practice is that that this information is found in the section for contact or public relations. At the same time, the quality of information presented varies.
However, the last few months brought positive developments and commitment for improved transparency. The Plan of the Government for urgent democratic reforms called 3-6-9 recognizes the need for opening up information of interest to the public and involves certain measures. In this line, on 31 October 2017 the Government adopted information from the Ministry of Information Society and Administration referring to lists of documents that all ministries are obliged to publish on their websites. These include: strategic plan, budget, adopted reports for budget execution, audit reports, plan for public procurement, organogram, rulebook for systematization of workplaces, list of employees with information on their position and contact email and phone, consolidated texts of laws and bylaws in the area of work of the ministry, any forms that citizens might need in communication with the ministries, tariff list for obtaining real acts, list of information of public character, contact details of the person responsible for public information, rulebook for protected internal reporting contact details of the official person for protected internal reporting, information and contact details about the officer for personal data protection, general contact information of the ministry, list of active registers administrated by the ministry, biographies of the minister, deputy minister and state secretary and online calendar for events. There are certain exceptions for the Ministry of Interior and Ministry of defense due to security reasons.
Moreover, the Government set an obligation for all ministries to publish the requested information within two weeks of the adoption of the decision. Even though with some delays, most of the ministries have published the requested information online. Still, there is no unified approach among the ministries and those documents can be found in different sections. Also, the quality of information varies from institution to institution.
While these steps are indeed a very positive development towards increasing the transparency of the public sector, there is no monitoring mechanism whether the ministries are indeed going to implement this request completely and whether the information is going to be regularly updated or not. In such situation, the Commission for Protection of the Right to Free Access to Public Information should step up and start monitoring if all ministries are publishing and updating the necessary information. Also, similar guidelines should be provided to the other information holders. Given that the Commission was set as a safeguard of the right to free access to public information, there is a need of more active engagement and further promotion of the need for proactive transparency in front of all information holders.
Prepared by: Magdalena Lembovska, Research Fellow, Security Policy Programme
1* ACTION SEE stands for "Accountability, Technology and Institutional Openness Network in South East Europe”, more can be found on http://opennessindex.actionsee.org
2* Naumovska Nada, Danilovska Dance, Proposal for the improvement of the current state, ACTION SEE,
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Weak links in Russia’s petroleum-refinery network and the Kremlin’s power play in Ukraine are shortchanging Central Asian petrol markets, importers complain. With alternatives expensive or unfeasible, and regional refining capacity severely limited, local energy executives are ruing Moscow’s traditional sway over the region’s petrol supply.
While the cease-fire between Ukraine and pro-Russian and Russian fighters holds steady, another fight is poised to begin over Russian gas for Ukraine. And, this time, it’s a fight that, by default, involves Ukraine’s small, pro-Western neighbor, Moldova, too.
The Ukraine crisis keeps having unintended consequences. The latest is a setback for South Stream, Russia's planned pipeline to bypass Ukraine when exporting gas to Europe. Here are five things to know about the story.
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov visited Tajikistan on May 5-6 in the latest sign of what's becoming the best bilateral relationship in Central Asia.
The focus of Berdymukhammedov's meeting with Tajik counterpart Emomali Rahmon was energy and transportation. Those two topics are the basis for the growing friendly ties between Turkmenistan and Tajikistan.
The Kremlin’s partition of Crimea from Ukraine has put other states along Russia’s “near abroad” on edge. But while most of Russia’s neighbors seem to be worried about becoming Vladimir Putin’s next target, one state, Azerbaijan, stands to benefit, at least over the longer term, from the sudden turn of events.
Energy-rich Azerbaijan could emerge as a winner in the international crisis over Crimea, if the West pushes away from Russia as a natural-gas supplier, Azerbaijani analysts say. Diplomatic sensitivities, namely a desire in Baku not to rile Russia, means that any Azerbaijani effort to capitalize on the crisis will take place behind the scenes.
Armenia is the most gas-hungry country in the South Caucasus, and already is in a committed energy relationship with Russia. But many Armenians, tired of being taken for granted by the Kremlin, want their government to start flirting with another natural-gas suitor: Iran. | <urn:uuid:068b1b20-1e9d-44b2-b9bd-a82328b0ea2b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.eurasianet.org/taxonomy/term/2808 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00159-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925195 | 470 | 1.640625 | 2 |
When you know your average menstrual cycle length,you can work out when you ovulate. Ovulation happens about 14 days before your period starts. If your average menstrual cycle is 28 days,you ovulate around day 14,and your most fertile days are days12,13 and 14.
People also ask
What are the most fertile days in a menstrual cycle?
If your average menstrual cycle is 35 days ovulation happens around day 21 and your most fertile days are days 19,20 and 21. If you have shorter cycles, say 21 days, ovulation happens around day 7 and your most fertile days are days 5, 6 and 7. Your most fertile days are the three days leading up to and including the day of ovulation.
How do I know when my most fertile days are?
Using these signs and symptoms to detect your most fertile days. Ovulation tests detect the LH surge which happens 24-36 hours before ovulation. Clearblue Ovulation Tests are at least 99% accurate in detecting the LH surge. The calendar method has been found to predict the correct fertile days in only a third of cycles 1.
When is the best time to ovulate?
Ovulation in some women can occur on the 8 th or 10 th day of her period or as in normal circumstances on the 14 th day. Those with irregular menstruation cycles will not have regular ovulation and will find it difficult to pinpoint their most fertile days without ovulation kits.
Can you get pregnant any time of the month?
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Kerala floods have been devastating – loss of life, loss of property, loss of livelihood, all this has hampered the normalcy of life in the state. Children have been largely affected by this calamity. Imagine what a child must have left when the rising water levels destroyed the books, school bag, drawing kit, uniforms, etc. 7-year-old Shivani who lives in a two-room Indira Awas house in Pandalam lost all her study materials in the floods, the flooding was so bad that the family had shifted to a local shelter run by a religious group Pathnamthitta District of Kerala. When the water receded, the family went back home to check their belongings. It was then that Shivani found out that she had nothing left to carry to school no books, no bag.
Shivani’s paternal aunt Ponnamma shares, “When we returned to our house, we had lost everything other than the gas cylinder. It was heart-breaking to see that Shivani had lost all her books and her study material”. This made the child shocked and frightened, so much so that she missed her school for two weeks. The family desperately wanted Shivani to get back to her normal life, at the earliest.
Deepa, her mother said, “She is an enthusiastic student, who loves to sing, dance and draw. She actively participates in all activities at school. Losing out on classes was a shift from the normal for Shivani and my child was in distress having lost all her study material.” The family wanted immediate means to be able to restore a sense of going back to the routine life of Shivani.
The child and her family were reached out to by our on-ground flood relief distribution staff. Sarasvati, our community volunteer supported the distribution of relief materials given out by Save the Children during the immediate relief phase. The child was provided with a bright red color school bag, filled with stationary, notebooks, an umbrella, water bottle, and a drawing kit. Providing this basic stationary material made a huge positive impact for Shivani.
When Save the Children’s team went for the house visit to Shivani’s, the child was busy with her coloring book and was excited to use all the crayons from the bag. “I got the bag in school from Sarasvati aunty. They were distributing a lot of bags. All my school mates stood in a queue and received these bags”, Shivani said.
Sharing her experience Sarasvati said that the Education Kits that Save the Children distributed were a huge requirement as it caters to children’s needs in the design of relief materials. She further added that all the items in the kit have been thoughtfully picked and the children were thrilled to receive them to an extent that few children are even saving some of the contents for the next academic year.
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The U.S. Department of Transportation launched a campaign Tuesday challenging parents to discuss driving safety with their teenagers in order to reduce the number of motor vehicle crashes, the No. 1 killer of 14- to 18-year-olds in the United States, according to federal data.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration scheduled the launch to coincide with National Teen Driver Safety Week. The campaign encourages parents to spend time each day during the week discussing one of the “5 to Drive” safety topics: No cellphone use or texting while driving, no extra passengers, no speeding, no alcohol and no driving or riding without a seat belt.
The campaign “is about getting parents to engage in an ongoing discussion with teens about safe driving,” said National Highway Traffic Safety Administrator David L. Strickland. “As it happens, right now we’re losing way too many young people in crashes that are 100 percent preventable.”
Strickland said 2,105 teen drivers were involved in fatal crashes in 2011, and 45 percent of them died in the wrecks. His agency designed the safety topic list to counteract poor driving decisions that studies indicate contribute significantly to the high death rate among teenage drivers.
Strickland cited federal data showing that in 2011, speeding was a factor in 35 percent of fatal crashes involving teen drivers. It also shows that more than half the teenage passengers who died in crashes were unrestrained, 12 percent of teen drivers who were involved in fatal crashes were distracted at the time and 505 people died in crashes in which drivers 14 to 18 had alcohol in their systems.
Parents can play an integral role in preventing crashes involving teens, said Dr. Flaura Koplin Winston, the scientific director of the Center for Injury Research and Prevention at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Winston said a recent survey of 5,500 teens across the country, conducted with State Farm Insurance Companies, found that teenagers were 50 percent less likely to crash when parents “set clear rules, keep track of their activities and do so in a supportive manner.”
Strickland noted the importance of supporting teens who make safe driving decisions. He mentioned an incident earlier this month in which a Massachusetts high school punished senior honor student Erin Cox after she went to pick up a friend from a party because she didn’t want her friend to drive drunk or get into a vehicle with an intoxicated driver.
North Andover High School demoted Cox from her post as the captain of the school’s volleyball team and suspended her for five games.
“I appreciate the fact that we want to make sure that it is a zero-tolerance situation regarding teens and alcohol. They shouldn’t be drinking at all,” Strickland said. “But the last thing you want to do is to punish that teen that made the right decision.” | <urn:uuid:469ff659-51a8-4346-b541-f85de0a5841a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/article1956608.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00215-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97084 | 590 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu urged President Barack Obama on Sunday to emulate his predecessor John Kennedy and to set “red lines” for Iran in the same way that Kennedy set “red lines” for the Soviet Union in the 1962 missile crisis. That’s the best way to avert war, Netanyahu claimed.
But the Cuban Missile Crisis, as Netanyahu well knows, is engraved in American memory not only for Kennedy’s ultimatums but also for having brought America to the brink of nuclear war. And it is the suspicion that Netanyahu is trying to goad the United States into launching a war that most Americans do not want, more than the claim that he is interfering in the presidential elections, that is currently damaging both his and Israel’s standing. Many American Jews who have spent much of the last decade deflecting allegations that Israel and the Jewish lobby were behind the war in Iraq, are now watching helplessly as the Israeli prime minister appears to be doing the same for Iran, but in public and in no uncertain terms.
In an attempt to mitigate some of the damage caused by his harsh statements last week, Netanyahu appeared on CNN and on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday and successfully avoided making any statement that might be construed as endorsing Mitt Romney. He may also have set up the ladder that will allow him to climb down from his demand for US action before the upcoming elections by stating that Iran will have 90% of the material needed for a nuclear bomb – but only in six months’ time. In fact, when drawing on football terms with which his American audience is familiar, as is his wont, Netanyahu actually appeared to be inching closer to Obama’s own positions, saying that the Iranians are now in a “red zone”, 20 yards from the “red line”, but must not be allowed to score “a touchdown”, that is acquiring a nuclear weapon.
But even if Netanyahu’s efforts at damage control are successful, this is another opportunity to invoke the saying that a clever man extricates himself from a trap that a smart person would never have fallen into in the first place. Netanyahu’s insistence on waging an acrimonious public debate with the President in the middle of an election campaign, his refusal to call on Republicans to desist from using Israel as a wedge issue in the elections and his attacks on Obama’s Iran policy with Romney standing by his side in Jerusalem – all of these were harmful to Israel’s image and standing, especially among Democrats and their supporters.
But things deteriorated last week, when it seemed that Netanyahu was trying to publicly push Obama into a corner over “red lines” and after he invoked such loaded terms as “moral authority” that grated on American ears. The ensuing attacks on Netanyahu by some of his long time critics in the American media were unusually harsh and unpleasant, as if an unspoken code of restrained comment had been broken. Other than in the hawkish wing of the Republican Party, there doesn’t seem to be much support, for the President to lock himself into a course that could lead to an inevitable war or much sympathy for a foreign leader who seems to be pressuring him to do so.
The killing of the American diplomats in Benghazi and the outburst of hostility against the US in the Arab and Muslim world are no doubt eliciting feelings of anger and frustration in America that may be blunting some of the criticism directed at Netanyahu, but it’s not clear yet where these reactions will lead: to tougher attitudes and support for projections of force, as many Republicans and Israelis would like, or to resignation and disengagement from the area as a whole, as those on the fringes of both left and right are sure to suggest.
In the discussion that followed Netanyahu’s appearance on Meet the Press, it was instructive to hear Atlantic magazine and Bloomberg blogger Jeffery Goldberg - whom right wingers consider to be a leftie, left-wingers view as a rightie and most Jews embrace as a voice in the middle - say that “I have never seen a prime minister who has mismanaged Israeli-US relations like Netanyahu.” And while Goldberg’s stature may be light years away from that of the legendary Walter Cronkite, my immediate association was to the oft-told but never-proven account of Lyndon Johnson’s reaction to Cronkite’s assertion in early 1968 that the Vietnam War was unwinnable: “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost middle America.”
Finally, it should be noted that amidst such weighty issues as Iran’s nuclear race, presidential politics and Israel’s standing in America, the sentence that drew the most attention in the Sunday shows was that of Meet the Press host David Gregory who described Netanyahu as “the leader of the Jewish people”, Gregory thus stirred the Jewish hornet’s nest by stepping into the ultra-sensitive historical controversy over Israel vs. Diaspora and “dual loyalties”, eliciting howls of protests on Twitter and Facebook from people who refused to be annexed against their will to Bibi’s realm.
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One sticky New Hampshire July summer evening while hosting the annual lobster and clamfest for our UNH Summer Literacy Institute, Donald Murray was in the house. Now you must know that to have Don in my house was an honor. He was a man I had admired since I was an undergraduate and then here he was all hot and buttered fingers and faces on the back deck with the rest of us.
And then it happened. He walked right up to me and asked, “Who wrote the poem, ‘Over the John’?” I froze. What? The ultimate test had come my way and as my face heated up and I began to sweat, I flipped through the suddenly empty files in my brain, wracking it for any poet I could think of. The words, who wrote Over the John? Over the John?, Over the John?, reverberated in my head. As I agonized I realized he was staring at me…waiting for an answer and so finally, in the ultimate defeat I simply admitted, “I don’t think I know that poem.” At which point Donald Murray let out a larger than life guffaw of a laugh and re-stated, “No, the poem over the john in the bathroom, who wrote that?”
And in my state of stunned stupidity it still took me a moment to actually realize that he was not testing me at all but simply asking me a question to which I knew the answer. “Oh! My daughter wrote that in 3rd grade.” To which he responded that she was quite a little writer. And then he left me there in all of my shame to melt in my sense of stupidity. I hate tests. I have always hated tests and this was a self-imposed one. The pressure makes me stupid.
So what if we are all made stupider by tests? And if that is not the case then what about the some of us that are? I will admit it; I am one of the worlds worst test takers. When I see a question and then the 4 possible answers I try to think about the “right” one and while one might seem “more” or “less” right, I get stuck on imagining the possibilities of what “could” or “could not” be right. I see grey in a world of black and white. I stammer in the ideas that the test is probably trying to trick me and so I get obsessed with thinking about outwitting, outplaying, and outlasting the test. Yes, I want to be the sole Survivor, but I get too caught up in the game and then I simply freeze and ultimately I am blindsided and voted off the island. I lose.
This past weekend in NYC at Barnard (see previous post as well as here: Totalwebcasting.com/live/columbiatc/20130504/ for live on streaming) was eye opening on so many levels. It made me wonder about so many things…many of which have to do with testing and beyond. I heard stories, saw grown men weep, and felt passion so great it was palpable. I met people that I have only “known” on-line for the first time in person.
I was welcomed into Renee Dinnerstein’s (See her blog here: http://investigatingchoicetime.com/) home in Brooklyn…our first face to face meeting ever and she hosted me for 2 nights. We talked for all the time I was there. She introduced me to her husband, Simon and his incredible works of art that line their Brooklyn Brownstone and beyond. She took me to the public schools of NYC, gave me history of the area, of her life, the schools, the system. We visited an exhibit at the Brooklyn art museum by Anatsui, amazing!! Thank you Renee for your kind hospitality and for bringing together great minds for brunch where I also met Vicki Vinton, (See Vicki’s blog here: http://tomakeaprairie.wordpress.com/) on-line colleague, for the first time. But most of all I learned that I am not alone in this endeavor. There are so many of us out there who are so discouraged, outraged and ready to take action.
And while I was hoping to have a great post synthesizing the weekend, I realize I still have a great deal of processing to do.
And so as my 16-year-old Zachary heads out the door for his annual NECAP testing this morning he seems to be fine with it. Both of my kids are better test takers than I am. In fact, he enjoys the testing perks…early senior privileges and the fact that teachers are not allowed to give homework during testing because they want students performance to be stellar. (Is it just me or can you see how ironic this is?) Our schools are ready and willing to help students get more sleep FOR the tests, but not for everyday schooling. Sometimes I think I am crazy, or just looking for answers in my brain that are just not there. Am I asking the right questions? That is the real question, or am I just searching for something over the john?
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The technology industry has long been considered a boys’ club, a stereotype perpetuated by popular culture as well as the faces of technology companies represented in the media.
According to the National Center for Women & Information Technology’s “Sit With Me” campaign, which raises awareness for women in technology by encouraging women in the field to share their stories, women hold only 25 percent of all technology and computing jobs, though they fill more than half of all professional occupations in the U.S.
New York City is taking the lead in recognizing the enormous potential women present for the technology sector by encouraging girls to get involved in the field from an early age. “Information technology is a growth industry that changes almost every day,” says Geraldine Sweeney, senior associate commissioner of New York City’s Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications (DoITT), who as a keynote speaker, addressed a crowd of high school girls on Friday, April 20 at Microsoft’s DigiGirlz Day in Manhattan.
“There are more jobs than there are professionals to fill them and that will continue to be the case tomorrow, and for the foreseeable future. To keep pace with this evolving field, it’s essential for young women to pursue tech-related learning skills.”
DigiGirlz Day is an event Microsoft started in 2000 and has since grown to multiple locations worldwide, including at its offices in New York City, since 2003. DigiGirlz Day stresses the importance of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education and gives girls the opportunity to interact with women leaders in technology so they can learn more about careers in the field. The day also introduces them to some of Microsoft’s cutting-edge new consumer technologies, such as the Microsoft Surface, a multi-touch surface table that runs numerous applications and allows multiple users to engage at the same time. The DigiGirlz program also extends to “High Tech Camps” across the country and online courses.
“When we first started, we had one classroom of young women in high school who were interested in a career in technology. We’ve expanded now to over 100 young women from across the metropolitan area, including New Jersey,” says Antuan Santana, an operations and community manager at Microsoft who manages the New York DigiGirlz event. This year, the 100 or so student participants hailed from 13 schools.
“This did change how I look at technology,” shared Nadia Mushib, a student at Preston High School in the Bronx. ” I thought it was mostly boring and didn’t care, but this event really changed my perspective.”
The events partners included Pace University’s Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems, which presented a career panel; United Way of Essex and West Hudson, which opened the event to girls who may not have previously considered careers in technology; and the New York City Department of Education, including members of the Academy For Software Engineering, a new public high school that opens this fall in Union Square. Both Pace and United Way host high school outreach programs that target high school students and also try to create awareness around STEM.
Yvonne Williams, a program analyst for the Academy For Software Engineering who led the panel on STEM education at DigiGirlz, says that of the nearly 1,000 applicants that applied to the academy’s first class this fall, one-third were female, and the school hopes to maintain an even gender balance in their student population. Geared towards students studying computer science, the school will also provide a rigorous academic program beyond technology to prepare students for college. The academy will also focus on connecting tech-inclined students to jobs and internships.
The Academy For Software Engineering, which opens in the fall of 2012, was founded by venture capitalist Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, and Mike Zamansky, a computer science teacher at Stuyvesant High School. The academy will occupy the current Washington Irving High School building, along with five other schools. Video courtesy of MakerBot Industries.
The Academy For Software Engineering is one of the at least 12 schools focusing on career and technical education that Mayor Michael Bloomberg plans to open by the end of 2013, when his third and final term ends. “It’s a very exciting time to be involved with any aspect of technology in New York City because there is so much attention going towards it,” says Williams. “It’s really positive that the Mayor’s Office is very clearly behind not only the Academy For Software Engineering, but other initiatives to help all of us become technology savvy and teach the computer literacy skills that will be so relevant in coming years, especially for younger generations.”
Another initiative working to educate girls and promote STEM education is Girls Who Code, a new organization which aims to teach young girls from underserved communities in New York City a coding language and inspire them to enter STEM careers. Founded by Reshma Saujani (formerly of the New York City Office of the Public Advocate), the organization will launch a summer program this July. It’s geared towards 13- to 17-year old girls, each of whom will be paired with a skilled coder or successful entrepreneur mentor from a New York City company.
“The biggest impact programs like DigiGirlz make is in providing real core role models for young women, where role models may not currently exist,” says Santana. “Examples of female leaders in technology that can make technology and the industry relatable to these young women.” Hopefully, with the help of Microsoft and schools like the Academy For Software Engineering, girls will recognize their full potential to succeed in a field they may have previously seen as off limits.
Laima Tazmin, a speaker at DigiGirlz Day who founded her own website design company as a freshman in high school, may have put it best when she quoted Steve Jobs: “Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you … the minute that you understand that you can poke life…that you can change it, you can mold it…that’s maybe the most important thing.”
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We must learn to understand how far we can go. We have our limits. To stop on time we have to learn the virtue of prudence. Our will is put to test often. Our weak will needs the support of solidarity and the help and encouragement of others. At other times, our will is bolstered by faith and we find strength in prayer.
On the Camino de Santiago, the daily effort makes us understand our own limits. We do not do the Camino that we want to; we do the one we can. We are not machines, but people with limited power. In life we also have to learn how far we can go. We are not perfect; we have our limitations. We have to learn the virtue of prudence because we cannot forget that tomorrow we have to continue to walk and we have to keep some energy for backup. In other words, even though you may be able to keep walking right now, it may be better to stop so you can start out on tomorrow’s walk with more energy. Prudence requires that we raise our eyes from what we have directly in front of us and take other things into account like the consequences of our decisions. We also know, because of our experience on the Camino, that pain helps us to discover our true capabilities. Unfortunately, we avoid negative experiences in life and we struggle to live without effort. In a culture where we are given everything ready-made, we do not know what we are really capable of and our will is weakened so much that we fall down at the slightest setback. On the Camino de Santiago our will is put to test often, as in life. Often our weak will needs the support of solidarity and the help and encouragement of others. At other times, our will is bolstered by faith and we find strength in prayer. | <urn:uuid:13df3eda-bd6c-4637-87fc-529b7398d720> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://eng.ultreia.info/2004/01/recognize-your-limits.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00143-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962786 | 369 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Enjoying Irish with Children of all ages. A Collection of over 100 Rhymes and Songs. Includes 2 CD and English translation.
Bróga Nua is a beautiful collection of rhymes and songs aimed at young children … this book provides ample opportunities to teach important everyday phrases through Irish in a happy and fun learning environment.
Includes songs, rhymes and games (with English translations) on the following themes: Myself, At Home, Numbers, Circle Games and Rhymes, Food, Festivals and Celebrations, The Seasons, Tradtional Songs, Pastimes and Lullabies.
This book is suitable for teachers and parents to teach Irish in a fun way through song.
Suitable for all ages.
NO NEED TO BE AN IRISH SPEAKER
29.75cm x 22cm x 1cm
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Runaways in Juvenile Courts. OJJDP Update on Statistics.
The National Center for Juvenile Justice (NCJJ) analyzed records in the Center's National Juvenile Court Data Archive to examine how the juvenile courts handled runaway cases. NCJJ examined 40,000 records of runaway cases processed between 1985 and 1986 in 611 jurisdictions from 12 states representing about one-quarter of the U.S. youth population at risk. The results of this analysis are presented in this document. Highlights include the findings that: (1) each year juvenile courts handled close to three runaway cases for every 1,000 youth aged 10 through 17 living in their jurisdictions; (2) girls, whites, and youth 14 through 16 years old were more likely than other youth to be referred to court for running away; (3) medium-size counties had higher runaway case rates than large or small counties; (4) overall, one in five runaway youth were admitted to secure detention facilities while their cases were being processed by the court; (5) law enforcement agencies referred the majority of runaway cases to court; (6) 4 out of 10 runaway cases referred to court were dismissed either at intake or after an adjudicatory hearing; and (7) states varied widely in the proportion of runaway cases handled formally, from less that 5% to 50% or more. Other sections of the report describe the study methodology, discuss the findings in more detail, and present figures that illustrate the findings graphically. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Delinquency, Illegal Drug Use, Juvenile Courts, Juvenile Justice, Runaways, Youth Problems
Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse, Box 6000, Rockville, MD 20850.
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: N/A
Sponsor: Department of Justice, Washington, DC. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
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Although public opposition to the Pebble Mine in the Bristol Bay area of Alaska is tremendous, it still poses a threat to one of the world’s best salmon and rainbow trout fisheries.
Scott Hed of the Sportsman’s Alliance for Alaska says this:
“This is not just Alaska’s issue. It is not just a commercial fishing or sportfishing issue. This is about America’s last great wild fishery. If we falter here, we will have laid down our rods at the feet of a multi-national corporation. We will have turned an industry with a long history of destroying fisheries loose in a place that provides 40 percent of the wild salmon the world eats.
“As fishermen we will have abandoned one of the last places that is hatchery-free, with runs averaging 40 million salmon a year.
“If you fish and have not heard of Pebble, you may have been under a rock. It is a proposal for the largest hard rock gold and copper mine in North America, bringing with it all the pollution risk and water consumption that comes with mining at this scale.
“It would sit at the headwaters of the largest salmon fishery in the world, a place where you can catch five types of salmon, rainbows, Dollies, char, northern pike, lake trout and grayling. Its sport fishing industry brings in $100 million a year; its commercial fisheries are worth $400 million each year. Together they provide jobs for more than 12,000 people.”
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Extractive industries such as mining are responsible for 50% of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. However, recycling steel from mining equipment could make all the difference. Here, Anders Åkesson, QM EHS Manager, Crushing & Screening at Sandvik Mining & Rock Technology (SMRT), Sandvik Group, explains how Sandvik has encouraged steel circularity in the mining industry.
The circular economy promotes the reduction of waste and a continuous use of materials and natural resources, rejecting the notion of the 'take, make, dispose' linear economy. The Ellen McArthur Foundation recognises the circular model with three principles; design out waste and pollution, keep products and materials in use and regenerate natural systems.
Circularity is becoming vital in the reduction of CO2 emissions, and can help improve the environmental position of many industries. With the mining industry contributing a large percentage of global CO2 emissions, implementing circularity could help it make vital reductions.
The mining industry relies heavily on metal for its machinery. As metals are infinitely recyclable, it supports the practice of circularity. For instance, machine design can be assessed to produce machinery from recycled parts, which can then be reused again. However, the initial production of steel is one of the most energy intensive tasks in the world.
Steel is one of the most widely produced and consumed materials in the world - with its production enough to construct one Eiffel Tower every three minutes. Production involves extracting iron ore from the ground, which is combined with a coke reducing agent to remove oxygen from the ore. This process produces harmful emissions, which pollute the environment.
But the mining industry cannot operate without steel. To produce equipment, the industry predominantly uses manganese steel, which is renowned for its work-hardening properties and resistance to abrasion. This means that the material becomes harder with the more impact it receives, creating a low friction surface that is more suited to crushing. For this reason, manganese steel has been used in high impact applications for over 100 years, making it an ideal material for cone crushers.
Cone crushers are used to grind down rocks, which are fed into the top of the crusher and pressed between the mantle and the cone. This breaks the rock down into smaller fragments, which are then passed through lower levels of the crusher where they are broken down further. It’s vital that cone crushers are made from a material that provides the necessary force to grind the rocks, while withstanding the abrasive nature of the process.
However, the damaging effects of steel production call for changes to our resource management. While methods to improve steel production include replacing coke with hydrogen to eliminate CO2 emissions, producing new equipment still requires a lot of energy. So, how can the use of steel in mining equipment become more sustainable?
Using recycled steel from used cone crusher parts to make new cone crushers, Sandvik SMRT has demonstrated and improved circularity of steel production for mining equipment. The division was nominated for Sandvik’s first sustainability award in April 2020, which recognises sustainable innovations from its employees.
Sourcing manganese steel from one of the world’s most sustainable manganese foundries, based in Sweden, was the first step SMRT took towards its sustainable innovation. A total of 91% circular steel was used to manufacture wear parts, such as the cone and mantle of a cone crusher. These wear parts are reused to produce new wear parts for the cone crushers - creating a continuous cycle.
Moving away from a linear model, Sandvik increased the circularity and sustainability of its products and eliminated 79% of production emissions. In addition, Sandvik cone crushers help SMRT’s customers to lower their environmental impact as they are buying from the circular economy - contributing to their own sustainability goals.
With mining contributing towards CO2 emissions in more ways than one, it’s essential that the industry uses methods that reduce emissions. Reusing and recycling steel to manufacture mining equipment has demonstrated an opportunity that helps meet the sustainability goals of both equipment suppliers and their customers. If the industry wants to become circular, taking a look at equipment a good place to start. | <urn:uuid:90e16282-9224-44fb-8dd4-fe100b663654> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.engineeringspecifier.com/machining/how-sandvik-has-encouraged-steel-circularity | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.950059 | 865 | 3.40625 | 3 |
The Greatest Story Ever Told
“It’s a tale that begins before every other beginning. A God who is three and one. A cosmos born of community. A catastrophe unleashed at a stroke. A tragedy entered by love. A Creator made creature and killed. A Corpse conquering death by dying. A Lord with scars, rising to rule. A world invited to share God’s life. A universe renewed and redeemed.” – Glen Scrivener
To start, let’s answer this question: What is the Bible? If you don’t know what the Bible is, then it can be really hard to know what the purpose of it is. The Bible is not a textbook, or a rule book, or even a collection of inspiring quotes. While it encompasses parts of all those things, the Bible is so much more than any one of them.
The Bible is a story that imparts wisdom and leads us to Jesus.
It’s not just any story though. The Bible tells The Greatest Story Ever Told. It’s the story of God and the story of humanity. It’s the story of a good and loving God creating the heavens, the Earth, and everything in it. Of humanity rebelling against our loving creator and introducing sin, death, and evil into His good creation. It’s the story of God stopping at nothing to redeem humanity from our rebellion and to reconcile us to Himself by becoming a man and dying on a cross. It’s the story of a redeemed humanity, once again partnering with God, participating in the restoration of creation. A time when God makes all things new.
This is our story.
Here’s why this matters: The parts give existence to the whole and the whole gives meaning to the parts.
Okay, what does that even mean? Let me illustrate it this way: Letters by themselves are just letters, but when you put them together in the right combination, they form words. Those words can form sentences, sentences make paragraphs, and if you stick enough paragraphs together you end up with an entire book. That book is made up of parts. The parts give existence to it. And the whole, all of the parts together, is what gives meaning to each of the individual parts.
The parts give existence to the whole and the whole gives meaning to the parts.
Your story is a part of God’s story. And God’s story gives meaning to your story.
You are invited to be a part of God’s story. What will you say? Will you say, “Count me in”?
Over the next few days we’ll walk through the big story arcs of the Bible—starting in the beginning with God creating the heavens and the Earth and going all the way through to the moment when God makes all things new.
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When tested in patients hospitalized with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) unresponsive to previous treatment, linezolid, an antibiotic used to treat severe bacterial infections, proved largely effective when added to the patients' ongoing TB treatment regimen. Also, few patients developed resistance to the drug. These promising findings were tempered, however, by the fact that 82 percent of the patients who received linezolid experienced significant adverse events that may have been related to the drug. Findings from the study appear in the October 18th issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
XDR-TB is a form of tuberculosis that is resistant to at least four of the drugs most often used to treat TB. Although XDR-TB is rare, 77 countries worldwide reported at least one case by the end of 2011, according to the World Health Organization. In the United States, at least 57 cases of XDR-TB were reported between 1993 and 2010. Patients infected with XDR-TB typically have very poor clinical outcomes, and with no effective drugs available for their treatment, they often die.
Led by Clifton E. Barry, III, Ph.D., of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, and Sang-Nae Cho, D.V.M., Ph.D., professor of infectious diseases at Yonsei University, South Korea, researchers enrolled at two South Korean hospitals patients with chronic XDR-TB who had failed to respond to any treatment during the six months before enrolling into the study. The patients, predominantly men (72 percent) ranging in age from 20 to 64, were randomly assigned either to immediately begin 600 milligrams (mg) of linezolid once daily as part of their existing treatment regimen (19 patients) or to start the drug after a two-month delay (20 patients). After no longer testing positive for the bacterium or after four months of therapy, whichever came first, participants were then randomly assigned for the next 18 months to continue taking either a daily 600-mg dose of linezolid or a daily 300-mg dose. The patients were regularly monitored for any adverse effects.
After four months, 15 of the 19 patients (79 percent) in the immediate-start group, and 7 of the 20 (35 percent) patients in the delayed-start group no longer tested positive for TB. After six months of treatment with the drug, 87 percent (34 of 39 patients) no longer tested positive for the bacterium.
Adverse effects associated with long-term linezolid use included bone marrow suppression and peripheral and optic neuropathy. In the study, 31 patients (82 percent) experienced clinically significant adverse events that were likely related to the use of drug, but most of these events resolved quickly after briefly stopping the drug or using the lower 300-mg dose, the authors note. Only 3 of those 31 patients permanently discontinued use of the drug because of side effects. Additionally, only 4 of the 38 patients (11 percent) who used the drug for six months or more acquired resistance to linezolid. Thirteen patients completed treatment and have not had a relapse in the 12 months after treatment ended. All of the patients continue to be watched for long-term outcomes.
The authors conclude that linezolid may become an important therapeutic option for XDR-TB cases in the future. It also may form part of a regimen to treat MDR-TB in periods shorter than the two years of therapy standard for such patients now. Yet in both instances, additional clinical trials are needed to identify a dosage that is sufficiently potent yet does not cause significant adverse events.
Explore further: TB drug could reduce mortality for MDR-TB and XDR-TB cases
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This car size chart discusses and shows the ways in which certain famed cars have developed and evolved over the years.
Giving particular emphasis to the shape of cars, the infographic boasts a huge number of graphics that accurately show the way in which certain models have ballooned or shrunk. Though each model is different, most have grown in size over the years. The specific cars used in the chart include a Ford Explorer, a Volkswagen Golf, a Mini and more.
The changes marked in this piece reflect a changing design standard, and the way in which consumers understand the aesthetics of a modern car. Though many people may prefer older, vintage models of these cars, the chart shows off the beauty of design over the years.
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Procurement is the process that involves all the actions that lead to the acquisition of products and services required by a company to fulfill its activities. Some companies, especially smaller ones, start without a well-designed procurement process, some even don’t have a department for it, and that’s one of the reasons why companies can have such a rough start sometimes. A good procurement process is key from the very beginning to have a smooth workflow, and to ensure that the company will be sustainable over time, and there are different factors that you can take care of to make sure of that, here you have some:
- Identify your needs: Since procurement implies getting needed products and services, make a detailed list of those your company needs. Check on every department and section of your production process; knowing all of their necessities will save you time and will keep procurement more organized.
- Define your processes: In order to work efficiently, employees need well-defined processes so they can know exactly which tasks they must realize, and in what order. Create diagrams that illustrate the working process, document every step, and identify who is responsible for each step and how they must be performed.
- Go for automation: The main goal of every process is to happen without problems, and automation can save procurement from human mistakes and save you a lot of time, resources, and money. Many companies offer systems and software for automating sales, payment reconciliation, and invoicing, allowing you to avoid having workers in those areas and putting them in other departments where they can be a lot more beneficial instead.
- Work transparently: Allow access to important documents, records, and information to all of the people that are important in the procurement process, so they can work faster and without the need of asking others for them. This will save them a lot of time, especially regarding response times, and will make accountability quite easier. Transparency is also very appealing for other companies that might think of working with yours, so it may open the doors for more business opportunities
- Form strong bonds with suppliers: The world of business works through links and relationships. Having good communication with your suppliers gives you the possibility of negotiating prices, getting information clearly, and solving problems earlier and faster. These are the kind of relationships that can help a company stand out among others and succeed in the market.
Running a business is like operating any machine; making sure that every part functions well and fits correctly with the others is the way to success. The procurement process has many different parts, and they are all important for it to work properly. This means taking care of detail, avoiding mistakes, and defining the different components of the process to make it work smoothly from the beginning. Just as important, maintain your processes over time because keeping them working can sometimes be harder than making them work in the first place. | <urn:uuid:319bb064-bef5-465b-a2fa-42907f0ce54b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tonyvegaband.com/business/tips-to-start-and-stay-with-a-great-product-procurement-process/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00671.warc.gz | en | 0.963764 | 581 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Technology & Combat Characteristics
The Volga-class is the successor of the Baikal-class. Combat experience against Celestial Being (CB) made the ESF realize that their ships, even in superior numbers, was just no match for a single CB battlecruiser. To create a combative edge against CB and future threats, a new class of ship was needed, but with a vow of pacifism in future endeavors, a massive ship re-fit was decided instead.
Building on top of the pre-existing Baikal-class, ESF engineers added an entirely new module section to the aft of the ship with new system enhancements. A pair of MS hangers was added to expand the port and starboard of the ship and increased its MS support capacity. Attached to the new MS hangers are a pair of GN Engines on each side (suggestively each installed with 4 GN T Drives). A series of support beams were added to the aft to support the overall weight and structure of the new module. Its held together by a bridge platform that connects the two hangers together. The new additions were designed to limit obstructing the original capabilities of the Baikal-class; most if-not-all the original capabilities of its former class remains.
Just like the original class, the bow of the ship is a MS hanger. When deploying a MS squadron, the hatch would slide forward to sortie the squad. The hatch door also doubles as a MS catapult should the squad need to sortie with advanced speed. The new additional MS hangers have their own catapults as well, totaling 3 MS hangers to sortie and launch from their individual catapults. Underneath the new catapults, a pair of retractable fixed-positioned Laser Cannons are closed within until activated for combat. These cannons were the same type as the main cannon mounted on the Baikal-class. The enhancements tripled their MS combat force, firepower, and scramble time, making each ship of its class approximately three times more formidable against enemy targets.
While the Baikal-class was the fastest battlecruiser of the ESF, it wasn't as fast as CBS-74 Ptolemaios 2. The enemy always managed to escape capture using its Trans-Am System. While it's not clear if ESF engineers mimicked Ptolemy's ability, the propulsion upgrades allows the class to execute Trans-Am. Similar to its modernized predecessor, it uses a hybrid propulsion system; the Volga-class utilizes both plasma and particle propulsion systems separately. The plasma drives are used for cruising speeds and the particle engines for high acceleration. However, much of its propulsion applications and capabilities are undefined.
For combat, the class is still used best as long-ranged guns for rear support while its MS force intercepts enemy target(s). It is still weak at close-ranged combat and reliant on its MS force to compensate for its weaknesses. Although faster, its new mass affected its ability for evasive maneuvers and became a larger target for enemy forces. For unexplained reasons, ESF engineers never added additional hull armor nor tried to create a class that rivals the Ptolemy. Overall, the class is a powerful upgrade to the Baikal-class, but it still doesn't match the might of CB engineering.
- 10m Dual Laser Cannons
- Two of these powerful gun mounts are mounted in front of the bridge of the ship, and have a large firing arc and elevation angle, making them the main weapon for the battlecruiser. Four more "main cannons" are concealed within the new starboard and port MS Hangers located beneath the catapults. It is unknown if the catapult cannons are capable of being moved like the dorsal-mounted cannons.
- Fixed Laser Cannons
- These smaller lasers are mounted in fixed firing positions on the top, bottom, and also on the side thrusters of the ship. These smaller lasers are capable of firing angled-beams and are normally used for defensive purposes. Fourteen of these cannons are built into the dorsal bow of the ship, in front of the 10m-grade dual laser cannons with another fourteen mounted on the ventral surface behind the shuttlebay. The new MS hangers also contain an unknown number of these weapons.
- GN Missiles
- The launchers are fixed on the hullsides engine pods, making them quite vulnerable. When a cruiser is docked at an orbital elevator, its missile pods rotate upwards 90 degrees.
Special Equipment & Features
- Primarily used for long distance travelling purposes. Specific way of usage is unknown but can be speculated to be for powerful acceleration and deceleration purposes.
Following the Battle of Lagrange 2 the Earth Sphere Federation disbanded the organization known as A-LAWS transferring whatever Baikal-class cruisers they had over to the Earth Sphere Federation Army. Between A.D. 2312 and A.D. 2314 the ESF Army, knowing the faults and weakness of the Baikal-class, decided to upgrade some of their Baikal-class cruisers into Volga-class battleships by creating the new module onto the class fleet.
Before and during the ELS conflict Volga-class battleships served in the capacity of the ESF-Army alongside their Baikal-class predecessors. One such cruiser was used to transport Kati Mannequin and her husband Patrick Colasour to the Celestial Being. During the final battle of the war many Volga-class were deployed and were undoubtedly assimilated and/or destroyed by the Extraterrestrial Living-metal Shape-shifter during combat.
Decommission & Retirement
The upgrades that had helped to extend the longevity of the Baikal-class fleet and more likely had come to extend the Volga-class, the class would eventually end. By AD 2364, while it is unknown if any Volga-class battleships operated anymore, the class had likely been decommissioned and retired as new ship designs were quick to phase out its predecessors in a matter of a few years.
Notes & Trivia
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How to Set Up A Panasonic Home Theater System. You can enjoy movie theater sound in your living room when you set up a Panasonic home theater system. With proper speaker placement, you'll marvel at the sound of the movies that are played. Nothing beats being enclosed by the music, dialogue and sound effects of your favorite films. The only thing you'll miss is movie-theater butter on your popcorn. Follow these steps to learn how to set up your system.
Choose a location to set up the Panasonic receiver. Depending on the system, you may have a separate power amplifier or radio tuner, as well. Keep these components in an area where they will not be damaged accidentally. Try to protect them from dust, too.
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Place the front pair of speakers so that they bracket the television screen. Keep them at least the same height as the screen. You may choose to mount them on the wall above the television, as well.
Center the center speaker. Whether you place this above or below the television screen, try to get it as close to centered as possible. If the center speaker is markedly off center, the dialog and narration of movies will seem to be biased toward one side.
Set up the sub-woofer so that it's close to the television, but not so close as to cause magnetic interference. Generally, you should place it at least 3 feet from your monitor.
Find places for the rear speakers, which are also known as the surround sound speakers. They complete the sound stage of your Panasonic home theater system.
Complete the cable connections for the speakers. Run cables from the audio outputs of the receiver or power amplifier to the input jacks of the speakers.
Connect the receiver to the television. Output goes to input so, you need to connect the audio outputs of the television to the audio inputs of the receiver. If you have the option to use digital audio, remember to make only one type of audio connection: either digital audio or just standard stereo audio.
Try to have at least 3 feet between the front speakers for the best stereo separation. The rear speakers should be farther apart than the front speakers if possible. Don't be afraid to tweak the placement of the speakers after you've set them up to get the best possible home theater sound. Before setting up your Panasonic home theater system, remember to inspect each component for damage. Don't forget to check the cables for kinks or breaks, which may cause a short.
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Repatriation is equity work.
The Logan Museum is committed to developing and maintaining mutually beneficial relationships with the Native American communities represented by its collections. From 2005 through early 2009, the Logan Museum reviewed and redrafted its Policy on Repatriation and Management of Culturally Sensitive Materials. The Wisconsin Inter-Tribal Repatriation Committee, as well as Beloit College staff members, Board of Trustees members, and legal counsel, offered useful suggestions. The Beloit College Board of Trustees approved the policy on February 7, 2009.
Since the passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) in 1990, the museum has sent summaries of sacred objects, objects of cultural patrimony, and unassociated funerary objects, as well as inventories of human remains and associated funerary objects, to Indian Tribes, Native Alaskan Villages and corporations, and Native Hawaiian Organizations. The Logan Museum’s 2021-2025 Strategic Plan prioritizes NAGPRA consultations and repatriations. To accelerate this work, the Museum is working with Bernstein & Associates, NAGPRA Consultants, and is currently implementing a FY 2021 NAGPRA Consultation/Documentation Grant focused on the disposition of culturally unidentified individuals from the Midwest, Southeast, and California.
The Logan Museum welcomes meaningful consultation with tribal representatives. Tribal representatives are welcome to request additional collection documentation, are invited to visit the Logan Museum to view collections, and are welcome to photograph objects for traditional use and tribal distribution. For NAGPRA-related collection information or visit arrangements, please contact Nicolette Meister, NAGPRA Coordinator, at 608-363-2305 or email@example.com. | <urn:uuid:c4f95cce-71e5-452d-ba5d-9a9fe6d41f28> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.beloit.edu/logan/collections/repatriation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.912755 | 361 | 1.9375 | 2 |
What are Porcelain Veneers?
Porcelain veneers, also known as dental laminates or dental veneers, are thin porcelain shells which are custom made to fit directly over the front teeth. They are used to recreate the natural look of the teeth, whilst providing resilience and strength comparable to the natural tooth enamel.
Today, many people get porcelain veneers on the Gold Coast if their smile is less than perfect because of stains, chips, cracks, discolouration, gaps between teeth, or minor misalignments.
What are Composite Veneers?
Composite veneers on the Gold Coast are cheaper than porcelain and are built up directly in your mouth, with the veneers able to be bonded and handcrafted to the front of your teeth in a single dentist visit. They are made with the same material as a simple filling and tend to be less durable than porcelain.
Difference Between Porcelain Veneers and Composite Veneers
There are few differentiating features of porcelain veneers, when compared to composite resin-based veneers on the Gold Coast:
- Once placed, porcelain veneers cannot be repaired, and must be replaced if they break. On the other hand, composite veneers can be easily repaired by the dentist.
- Unlike composite veneers, which may need to be replaced or refreshed frequently, porcelain veneers are very durable and can last for up to 15 years if proper oral hygiene is maintained. That’s because the porcelain material is much stronger than the composite resin.
- The porcelain veneer procedure is much more involved and takes longer than the composite veneer procedure.
- Porcelain veneers are a bit more expensive since they are made by a dental technician in a laboratory that specialises in cosmetic veneers; whereas composite resin veneers are made in house, by the dentist and can be accomplished in just a single visit.
- Porcelain veneers are highly resistant to staining from coffee, wine, and cigarette smoking, due to the strength of the material and the glaze that’s applied after treatment. On the other hand, composite veneers on the Gold Coast are more porous, and thus susceptible to staining over time.
- Porcelain veneers require the removal of a part of the tooth surface, whereas composite veneers bonds directly on to the presenting tooth surface structure, therefore no damage is done to the tooth.
Benefits of Porcelain Veneers on the Gold Coast
Although the differences outlined above, porcelain veneers’ benefits vastly outweigh the benefits of standard composite veneers on the Gold Coast:
- One of the major benefits of porcelain veneers is the fact that they can help solve numerous dental problems at once such as, teeth discoloration, misshapen teeth, chipped teeth, misaligned teeth, and gaps between teeth.
- With proper care, porcelain veneers are very durable and can last between 10 to 15 years. This is because, once bonded to the existing teeth structure, porcelain veneers normally hold tightly to the healthy tooth structure to create a strong, solid restoration which lasts for many years.
- Porcelain veneers are life-like and look natural as they can be customized to blend seamlessly with the rest of your teeth, from shape, size, and colour.
- In addition to hiding various teeth imperfections, porcelain veneers can offer additional protection to teeth that are chipped or have cracks.
- The porcelain veneer procedure is less invasive compared to other types of cosmetic dental restorations.
- It is much easier to maintain porcelain veneers: Regular brushing and flossing along with 6-monthly hygiene visits to the dentist is all that is required.
- Porcelain veneers are stain resistant. This is because the porcelain material is smooth and impervious, therefore will not pick up any permanent stains.
- The porcelain veneers procedure can be combined with some other treatments such as teeth whitening treatment, to give a bright and radiant smile.
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What is the procedure of Porcelain Veneers on the Gold Coast?
The process starts with an initial consultation with our cosmetic dentist, which involves a thorough dental exam, records (such as photos and x-rays) and an evaluation of the patient’s oral health and needs.
During the procedure, teeth are prepared, impressions are taken either digitally or with special material, and then the teeth are given a temporary covering.
The impressions are then sent to our dental technician, who specialises in making natural looking porcelain veneers.
It usually takes between two to three weeks for the customised porcelain veneers to return back to the clinic, at which time the temporary covering is removed and the new veneers are bonded to the teeth.
Cost of Porcelain Veneers
Since our porcelain veneers on the Gold Coast are custom crafted from high quality porcelain material, prices for these type of porcelain veneers can vary on an individual basis.
The total cost of the treatment is based on what type of veneer and how many restorations are needed to transform your smile. Moreover, since each case is unique, there might be additional procedures required, such as orthodontics or gingival contouring, to achieve the desired smile results.
However, in most cases.
Composite Veneer: $390-$590 each
Porcelain Veneer: $990- $1780 each
At Mint Dental, we also offer an option of INTEREST FREE payment plans, so that you can pay off the cost of your treatment over time with no additional worries.
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How do I schedule for a consultation for a smile makeover?
It is important to note, you will need to schedule an appointment with our cosmetic dentist, so that we can tailor a treatment plan based on your individual requirement.
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At our school, we do a program called Capturing Kids' Hearts. Does anyone else's school do this also? I like the program and a really large part of it is writing affirmations. The students write them to each other as a way of showing their appreciation for one another. Usually one day a week I have my homeroom write affirmations to each other to strengthen the bonds within our little classroom, but I also encourage them to write notes to others within our school community. They love writing small notes to each other! You would be amazed at how sweet these are and even though it takes 10 minutes out of your school day, it really makes a huge difference as far as your classroom climate and mutual respect goes.
Since I teach 6th grade and the students rotate classes, it was difficult to organize a system where students could "deliver" notes to one another at an appropriate time. I created homemade mail boxes in my classroom so students could leave affirmations for one another. One of my students' jobs in every class is to distribute the affirmation for their specific class during bell work every day if we have mail. Since I encourage my students to write affirmations if they finish their work early, we usually always have mail to pass out. Some students even write them at home and bring them the next day to deliver, so cute!
Here's how I made them:
I bought three different colored gift bags from Target. I think they were 99 cents each so it's not like they set me back too much! I cut off the handles because those weren't necessary.
I then used these "Hello My Name Is" clip art pictures by Maree Truelove (love her stuff!) and created labels for the bags. I didn't upload a freebie for this just because I did pay for the clip art, but I used LD Shelly Script as the font so that you can recreate it. Don't you just love free fonts?
I used Mod Podge Gloss to adhere the printed labels, but if I had a choice I would have used rubber cement instead. I had to use glue dots to stick down the corners after a few days because it wasn't working so well.
I used washi tape to decorate the tops of the bags as a little decoration and to tie all of the bags together.
I ended up just stapling them to the wall along with class lists so the students would know which bag to drop their affirmations in.
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Wednesday, March 01, 2000
Sewer plant plans surveyed
Residents question timing and size
BY TERRY FLYNN
The Cincinnati Enquirer
ALEXANDRIA Tom Greiser looked at the various displays and charts, listened to what sewer experts had to say, and finally decided he still didn't have a solid opinion about the need for a new sewer treatment plant in southern Campbell County.
Mr. Greiser was one of about 80 people who visited Campbell County Middle School here Tuesday evening for a Sanitation District No. 1 workshop on the proposed waste water treatment plant.
I'm still not certain this needs to happen, at least not right away, said Mr. Greiser, who lives on three acres south of Alexandria.
Sanitation District officials and board members were on hand to answer questions from county residents concerning the proposed new facility, which they say is necessary to alleviate existing environmental and public health problems and allow for future development.
The Alexandria treatment plant overflows during periods of heavy rain, sending untreated sewage into streams. There are also problems with septic tanks and private package treatment plants. For those reasons, the state has placed a moratorium on development in the area.
The Sanitation District is presently planning for interim repairs and upgrades in the sewer system, but not bringing a new treatment plant on line for about 10 years.
Alexandria Mayor Dan McGinley said a new treatment plant is needed now.
I don't know what will happen in 10 years, he said. We need to accelerate this process any way we can. We have some streets inside the city with serious septic tank problems, and there are many more in the (unincorporated) county.
Peter Garrett, who owns a small farm near 12 Mile Creek in the southern end of the county, was curious about a display that showed the size and capacity of the existing Dry Creek plant in Villa Hills, the proposed western regional plant in Boone County, and the proposed eastern regional facility in Campbell County.
Dry Creek is a 20-acre facility on 90 acres of land; the proposed Boone County site is 150 acres with a facility that would eventually cover 50 acres; the proposed Campbell County site is 20 acres with a two-acre facility.
I don't see how that small a facility can handle the expected development in the county in the next 20 years, Mr. Garrett said to engineer Pete Johnson, who is a consultant on the Boone County site for GRW Engineers.
Mr. Johnson explained that studies show the new plant, with an initial capacity of 5 million gallons a day, would only be required to handle the area from Alexandria south.
Bush to Ohio: Help nail down nomination
Poll: McCain gaining, but still trails in Ohio
Bauer: McCain went too far in criticizing religious leaders
High school kids ask Bush tough questions
$710,000 stadium change OK'd in secret
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Schools' grades higher on latest report cards
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Troubled districts plot improvement
Students learn how to measure true success
Black studies gains status
Doan loses appeal
Judge protects inmate money
Reverend faces four counts of molesting 2 boys
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As McCain shines, GOP looks away
The gospel according to Andy Griffith
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Museum city has tiny population
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Drug trial under way
Florence street study delayed
Franklin motel called firetrap, ordered closed
Grand jury to hear jail knife case
Kids plan leadership quest
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MRDD gets interim leader
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U.S. Policy On Israeli Settlements In The West Bank Is Loosened
DAVID GREENE, HOST:
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced another big shift in U.S. policy toward Israel on Monday. He said the United States no longer views Israeli settlements in occupied territory as illegal under international law. This change thrilled Israel's right-wing government and equally dismayed Palestinians, who said the decision is destructive to peace. Naomi Zeveloff reports from Tel Aviv.
NAOMI ZEVELOFF: Hundreds of thousands of Israelis live in the occupied West Bank, which Israel captured from Jordan in 1967. Palestinians, most governments and the U.N. Security Council all agree that these settlements violate international law, which prohibits settling occupied territory. But now Pompeo says the United States no longer shares that view after it reversed a 1978 State Department opinion on the matter.
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MIKE POMPEO: The establishment of Israeli civilian settlements in the West Bank is not, per se, inconsistent with international law.
ZEVELOFF: Palestinians say this is only the latest U.S. attempt to undermine their claims to a state on the West Bank.
HANAN ASHRAWI: This is one of the most dangerous policies ever adopted by a U.S. administration. And it is an attempt to reshape and rewrite international law. It's an egregious violation and to create a situation of perpetual conflict.
ZEVELOFF: Hanan Ashrawi, a senior Palestinian official, says the move, along with U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, diminishes the prospect of an independent Palestine.
ASHRAWI: You cannot have a state without territory. You cannot have a state that incorporates illegal settlements in it. And you cannot have a state whose capital has been stolen and expropriated and given to Israel illegally.
ZEVELOFF: But many settlers are celebrating.
ODED REVIVI: I definitely think it is a positive decision.
ZEVELOFF: Oded Revivi is a representative of the Yesha Council, an umbrella group of settlers in the West Bank.
REVIVI: If you follow through what Secretary Pompeo has actually said, he said that calling the settlements illegal, it hasn’t promoted any peace. And therefore we need to try and find different approaches if we're really interested in promoting peace.
ZEVELOFF: After the U.S. announcement, he says it's time to apply Israeli law to the settlements. That's widely viewed as a step toward annexation. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also praised the decision. In a video posted on Facebook, he called it a, quote, "historic day" for Israel.
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PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: (Foreign language spoken).
ZEVELOFF: The American government, Netanyahu said, has now put an end to the lie that settlements are illegal. Netanyahu claimed the policy change as a, quote, "huge achievement" for Israel. It comes as his political rival Benny Gantz tries to form the next government. Gantz has until Wednesday night to succeed. Otherwise Israel may head to its third election in a year. For NPR News, I'm Naomi Zeveloff in Tel Aviv.
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"So much for this de-escalation zone [Eastern Ghouta]. They have starved people there, they have prevented humanitarian aid from getting in. We have seen innocent civilians killed," Nauert told reporters. "That is certainly no de-escalation zone… It shows what a farce this de-escalation zone has become."
The UN Security Council agreed to meet at noon on Thursday to address the humanitarian crisis in the Syrian suburb, as humanitarian crisis kept getting worse in the region.
Eastern Ghouta is one of four Syrian de-escalation zones created during the Astana Syrian reconciliation talks, with Russia, Iran and Turkey serving as guarantors of the de-escalation agreements. The area is dominated by several terrorist organisations, which Syrian government forces have been conducting military operation against for several days.
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Imagine being told by the government that you must advertise your product, even if you don’t want to.
This is exactly what is happening to traditional dairy farmers Joseph and Brenda Cochran from Westfield, Penn., which is located in the north-central region of the state. The Cochrans are being forced by federal law to help pay for those ubiquitous "got milk" advertisements. Represented by the Arlington, VA-based Institute for Justice, the Cochrans are in court seeking to stop this form of government-compelled speech. The case pits the First Amendment against agricultural regulation and promises to have far-reaching consequences for free speech.At issue is the federal law that created the well-known "got milk" ad campaign. Although just about everyone has seen these ads on television and in print, most people do not know that under the federal Dairy Promotion Program dairy farmers are forced to pay for them. The Cochrans, for example, must pay approximately $4,000 a year from their thin operating budget for advertisements that obscure the distinctions between the Cochrans’ traditional farming and other producers. Federal laws create a number of similar programs for a wide variety of agricultural products. Besides "got milk," government programs are also responsible for the "ahh, the power of cheese," "beef, it’s what’s for dinner" and "pork, the other white meat" ad campaigns, to name just a few. Federal and state agricultural programs exist for many more products as well. Clever ad campaigns all, but should the government force individual producers to pay for these programs whether or not they want to advertise their products and whether or not they agree with the advertising the programs fund?
The U.S. Supreme Court long ago held that the First Amendment does not allow government to compel individuals to speak, just as it does not allow government to prevent them from speaking. Speech wouldn’t be "free" after all if government could require people to convey officially sanctioned messages. The same principle applies to compelling people to pay for speech with which they disagree.
The Cochrans are "traditional" dairy farmers. They allow their cows more room to graze and to move around, and they don’t use bovine growth hormone. Although traditional dairy farming generally produces less milk than other types of farming, in the Cochrans’ view it results in healthier cows, a cleaner environment and a superior product. Judging by the booming market for organic products, many people agree with this approach to farming.
The Cochrans thus have every reason to distinguish their product from that of other producers. The Dairy Act, however, compels them to do just the opposite. It requires them to fund generic ads whose message is that all milk is the same, regardless of who produces it or what methods they use. Imagine if farmers who chose not to use pesticides were forced to fund advertising of foods produced using pesticides or if paper manufacturers who use only recycled products were forced to fund advertising of those that do not, and you begin to get an idea of why this is objectionable. The Cochrans, in other words, are forced to support a message and farming practices they have specifically chosen to reject. And they are forced to do so to the tune of thousands of dollars a year, a steep price for small dairy farmers who operate on thin margins.
On April 2, 2002, the Cochrans filed Cochran v. Veneman in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania challenging the Dairy Program as a violation of their rights under the First Amendment. Just two years ago, in United States v. United Foods, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a federal promotional program for mushrooms that is nearly identical to the Dairy Promotion Program was unconstitutional because it compelled mushroom producers to fund advertising with which they disagreed. As the Court stated in that case, "First Amendment values are at serious risk if the government can compel a particular citizen, or a discrete group of citizens, to pay special subsidies for speech on the side that it favors." Even when the issue is product advertising, the rights of dissenting producers deserve to be recognized under the First Amendment.
Unfortunately, the High Court has issued other decisions that have left the line between constitutional economic regulations and unconstitutional speech regulations unclear. As a result of this confusion, the Cochrans lost their case in District Court, with the court ruling on March 4, 2003, that the Dairy Program is constitutional because the milk industry is otherwise heavily regulated. In essence, the Court told dairy farmers that as long as the government regulates their prices and certain aspects of production, it may as well control their free speech, too. But two wrongs don’t make a right; restricting one kind of freedom—economic liberty—isn’t license to destroy another—free speech. Considering how prevalent economic regulations have become in all manner of businesses, this is a very troubling ruling. It is also a textbook example of how restricting some rights leads inevitably to restrictions on all rights—a trend the Institute for Justice fights tirelessly against.
The Cochrans appealed their case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and IJ agreed to handle their appeal. The case is slated to be argued in Philadelphia in January 2004 with a decision following some months thereafter.
Agriculture Promotional Programs: Government Regulated Speech; Pork Barrel Politics
During the past two decades, Congress has created a host of promotional programs for many agricultural products besides milk. Programs have existed for products as wide-ranging as beef, pork, honey, potatoes, watermelons, mangos, kiwifruit, limes, fresh cut flowers, peanuts, popcorn, pecans, soybeans, avocados and wool, to name just a few. Congress was so enamored of the promotional programs that in 1996 it enacted the generic Commodity Promotion Act, which is a catchall act that allows the Secretary of Agriculture to create promotional programs for any agricultural commodity. The states have also gotten into the game, creating promotional programs for products such as California grapes, Washington apples and even Louisiana alligator skins. Advertising, it seems, is increasingly something that governments view as too important to be left to individual producers and the free market.
The catch, of course, is that under most of these programs, producers who disagree with the advertising strategy of appointed industry boards have no right to create their own ads under the programs, to refuse to fund ads with which they disagree, or to opt out of the programs altogether. Under the Dairy Program, for instance, all dairy farmers must pay to the program 15 cents per "hundredweight" (i.e., per 100 lbs.) of milk they sell. For the Cochrans, this amounts to roughly $4,000 per year.
Proponents of the programs cite a number of justifications for this compulsion. They claim, for instance, that the ads are only generic and contain no message at all, so who can complain? But both consumers and producers make distinctions based on different brands and different production methods. Why should one producer be required to contribute to a general advertising fund for all products of a given type when he believes his product is superior? As the large market for organic foods and the many different brands of products available show, consumers are interested not only in the products themselves, but in how they are produced. In short, as the Supreme Court has made clear, the whole point of the First Amendment is to allow the speaker and the listener—not governments or industry boards imbued with government power—to assess the importance of commercial information.
Proponents also claim that any producer who is allowed to opt out of the promotional programs will be permitted to be free riders on the advertising of others. But this is a complaint more properly directed at collective advertising itself, not those who dissent from such schemes. If proponents of these schemes don’t like free riding, they should end collective advertising, not complain about those who believe that they can do better by advertising for themselves.
In a similar vein, defenders of the Dairy Program claim that it will increase demand for dairy products, which is necessary in order to decrease the federal government’s financial obligations under the so-called "dairy price support program." In 1949, Congress passed a law that required the federal government to purchase dairy products if the price of milk fell too low. The idea of the program was to prop up the price of milk by establishing the government as the buyer of last resort. The problem is that this eliminated the incentive to cut production or to direct milk to more efficient uses when prices fell. As a result, dairy producers kept producing dairy products that the government was obligated to purchase. Before long, the government had a lot of dairy products it didn’t need and a very large bill. Thus, proponents of the Dairy Program argue, clever "got milk" ads are necessary to make private citizens buy up all that excess milk so the government won’t have to. But here again, the problem is not a lack of advertising but an ill-advised price support program that distorts the milk market and leaves the federal government holding the bag.
Another justification for promotional programs is the idea that agricultural products are just too important to the economy to leave their advertising to the free market. This, however, can be used to justify government involvement in any market. And, indeed, Congress has used it repeatedly, claiming with each new program that the product at issue was vital to the national economy and public health. But are popcorn, kiwifruit and cut and dried flowers, to name just a few of the many products for which promotional programs exist, really a matter of national concern?
The truth is, the laws that create these promotional programs are as much a result of special interest politics as any other pork barrel measure—with the only difference being that instead of heaping taxpayer dollars on a particular industry, Congress essentially lends out its legal authority to coerce all producers into a collective advertising scheme. The government’s own website for the Dairy Program trumpeted the fact that the program is a private business with government "help." As the website put it, "Dairy Producer Checkoff: A $250 Million Business." This shouldn’t be surprising. The idea for the website came from dairy industry groups who were unhappy with voluntary local and regional advertising programs and wanted a national program that kept dissenting farmers from opting out. Not surprisingly, a number of dairy producers intervened in the Cochrans’ lawsuit to defend the program, arguing that it is beneficial to dairy producers—including those who wish to differentiate their products from the mainstream. But whether or not the Dairy Program helps dairy farmers who don’t object to its advertising is not the issue. They can always choose to advertise their products or to join with others and advertise collectively. The Cochrans, however, cannot choose to opt out of the Dairy Program.
The First Amendment Bars Compelled Subsidies for Speech
The Cochrans’ challenge to the Dairy Program finds its roots in the principle, first established by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1943, that just as the First Amendment prevents government from prohibiting individuals from speaking, so it prevents government from requiring them to speak. Thus, the Court has held that states cannot force schoolchildren to recite the pledge of allegiance or citizens to display state slogans on their car license plates.
In 1977, the Supreme Court applied this principle in the context of financial support for speech, holding that governments may not require individuals to subsidize speech with which they disagree, just as they may not require one to speak when they wish to remain silent. That case, Abood v. Detroit Bd. of Education, involved a challenge by a group of non-union public school teachers to a law that required them to pay service fees to the teachers union for activities that benefited them. The Supreme Court held that the law was valid as to activities that benefited all teachers, such as the union’s collective bargaining activities, but that dissenting teachers could not be forced to subsidize the union’s political activities. As the Court put it, "at the heart of the First Amendment is the notion that an individual should be free to believe as he will, and that in a free society one’s beliefs should be shaped by his mind and his conscience rather than coerced by the state." A few years later, the Supreme Court applied the same principle to the California State Bar, holding that while a state could require attorneys to pay dues toward bar activities that maintain the standards of the profession, it could not require them to pay for the Bar’s political activities.
Applying these principles in the context of compelled subsidies for promotional programs has lead the U.S. Supreme Court to issue seemingly contradictory decisions. In 1997, the Court upheld a federal law that required producers of California peaches and nectarines to subsidize a collective advertising program. In 2001, the Court struck down a program that required producers of mushrooms to do the same. Why allow compelled subsidies for advertising California peaches and nectarines but not for mushrooms? The answer lies in the way the two laws were structured. The law at issue for California peaches and nectarines regulated all aspects of the market for those fruits. It had a purpose beyond speech, and thus the Court viewed it as analogous to a law that required public employees to pay union dues. The law at issue in the mushroom case, however, was designed to do only one thing: advertise. It was, as Justice Stevens described it, a "naked imposition . . . of compulsion" very much like a "naked restraint" on speech that the First Amendment would obviously prohibit.
The Dairy Program is almost identical to the Mushroom Program that the Supreme Court struck down. The milk industry, however, is regulated a bit more extensively than the mushroom industry, leading some, including the District Court in the Cochrans’ case, to conclude that the Dairy Program’s compelled subsidies for speech are constitutional even though the Mushroom Program was not. According to this view, it is appropriate to compel producers to subsidize advertising with which they disagree so long as their industries are otherwise heavily regulated. The problem, of course, is that many industries are heavily regulated—pharmaceuticals, securities, law and accounting, to name just a few. Do individuals give up their rights of free speech simply by choosing to do business in these areas? Fortunately, that is not what the Supreme Court has held. In fact, two federal appellate courts have recently struck down similar promotional programs for beef and pork under the First Amendment.
Joseph and Brenda Cochran operate a dairy farm in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, which is located in the north-central part of the state. They tend to about 200 cows on roughly 900 acres of land, 200 of which they own and 700 of which they rent. Dairy farming has been in Joe’s family for three generations.
The Cochrans object to the Dairy Program because it forces them to subsidize speech with which they disagree. In Joe’s words, "[i]t is our belief that the use of sustainable agriculture in the form of [a] less intensive herd management and grazing system makes for a superior milk, promotes a better use of the resources, promotes the environment, and, in sum, provides a healthier product for humans and our planet." They do not consider milk to be a generic product and object to being forced to subsidize advertising that supports farming and dairy production methods that are, in their view, wasteful and inferior to their own.
The Cochrans are independent dairy farmers. They are not members of any dairy manufacturing or marketing cooperative. They market their milk themselves, and they alone determine how much to produce, how to sell it, and to whom it will be sold. Each year, they independently negotiate with the various processing plants who purchase their milk. They would be perfectly happy if the government would leave dairy farmers alone and let them produce, market and sell their milk themselves.
The lead attorney in this case for the Institute for Justice is Steve Simpson, who litigates First Amendment, economic liberty and property rights cases nationwide. Simpson is currently the lead attorney in ForSaleByOwner.com v. Zinnemann, the Institute’s challenge to California’s effort to require for-sale-by-owner advertising websites to obtain real estate brokers licenses. Prior to joining the Institute, Simpson was an associate in the litigation department of the international law firm Shearman & Sterling. He will be joined by William H. Mellor, president and general counsel of the Institute for Justice, and Scott Bullock, a senior attorney at the Institute. Assisting the Institute for Justice as local counsel is Walter Grabowski of Holland & Grabowski in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania.
For more information, contact:
John E. Kramer (Vice President for Communications)
Lisa Knepper (Director of Communications)
Institute for Justice
1717 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Arlington, VA 22203
Thomas Jefferson, "A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom," The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd, vol. 2, p. 545 (1950).
The federal law at issue is the Dairy Promotion Stabilization Act of 1983, Pub. L. 98-180, 97 Stat. 1128, 7 U.S.C. 4501 et seq. The Act authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to create the Dairy Promotion Program and appoint a Dairy Board to oversee it and create advertising and marketing programs for dairy products under the program. The Secretary issued an order consistent with the Act in March 1984. See 49 Fed. Reg. 11806-1.
Currently, more than $10 billion is spent annually on organic foods. That number is projected to grow. See True to its roots: Organic food industry wins fight on U.S. Standards (Press Release, April 18, 2003), available at http://www.organicconsumers.org/organic/
wewin041903.cfm; Carolyn Dimitri and Catherine Greene, Recent Growth Patterns in U.S. Organic Foods Market, available at http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/aib777/.
Case No. 4:CV-02-0529 (M.D.Pa. April 2, 2002).
See 533 U.S. 405 (2001). The Institute for Justice filed an amicus brief in the case.
Id. at 411.
See id. at 413.
See Glickman v. Wileman Brothers & Elliot, Inc., 521 U.S. 457 (1997).
See, e.g., 7 U.S.C. § 2611 et seq. (Potato Promotion Act, 1972), § 2901 et seq. (Beef Promotion Act, 1976), § 4601 et seq. (Honey Promotion Act, 1984), § 4801 et seq. (Pork Promotion Act, 1985), § 4901 et seq. (Watermelon Promotion Act, 1985), § 6001 et seq. (Pecan Promotion Act, 1990) (inactive program), § 6101 et seq. (Mushroom Promotion Act, 1990) (invalidated by United States v. United Foods, 533 U.S. 405 (2001)), § 6201 et seq. (Lime Promotion Act, 1990) (inactive program), § 6301 et seq. (Soybean Promotion Act, 1990), § 6801 et seq. (Fresh Cut Flowers and Greens Promotion Act, 1993) (inactive program), § 7461 et seq. (Kiwifruit Promotion Act, 1996) (inactive program), § 7481 et seq. (Popcorn Promotion Act, 1996), § 7801 et seq. (Avocado Promotion Act, 2000).
See 7 U.S.C. § 7411 et seq. Promotional programs for lamb, blueberries, peanuts, mango and olive oil have been established under this Act.
See 7 U.S.C. § 4504(g).
See United Foods, 533 U.S. at 511. See also Virginia Bd. of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, Inc., 425 U.S. 748, 765 (1976) ("It is a matter of public interest that [economic] decisions, in the aggregate, be intelligent and well-informed. To this end, the free flow of commercial information is indispensable."); Thompson v. Western States Medical Center, 535 U.S. 357, 373 (2002) ("If the First Amendment means anything, it means that regulating speech must be a last—not first—resort."); Riley v. Nat’l Fed. of the Blind, 487 U.S. 781, 790-91 (1988) ("The First Amendment mandates that we presume that speakers, not the government, know best what to say and how to say it.").
The so-called federal price support program was passed as part of the Agricultural Act of 1949, 63 Stat. 1052, ch. 792, § 201, 7 U.S.C. § 1446.
In the generic Commodity Promotion Act of 1996, Congress dispensed with any discussion of particular commodities and simply decreed that all agricultural commodities were vital to the "national economy." See 7 U.S.C. § 7411.
Since we made this point in the lawsuit, the government has changed the website, which no longer refers to the program as a "$250 million" business. See http://www.dairycheckoff.com/howitworks.htm. Copies of the old web pages are available from the Institute for Justice.
See West Virginia State Bd. of Education v. Barnette , 319 U.S. 624, 638 (1943) ("One’s right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.").
Wooley v. Maynard, 430 U.S. 705, 714 (1976) ("The First Amendment protects the right of individuals to hold a point of view different from the majority and to refuse to foster . . . an idea they find morally objectionable.").
431 U.S. 209, 234-35 (1977).
Id. at 234-35.
Keller v. State Bar of California, 496 U.S. 1, 9-10 (1990).
See Glickman v. Wileman Brothers & Elliot, Inc., 521 U.S. 457 (1997).
See United States v. United Foods, 533 U.S. 405 (2001).
See id. at 418.
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NEW YORK — The 20-year prison sentences received by Iran's seven Baha'i leaders have reportedly been reduced.
The Baha'i International Community has learned that the lawyers representing the seven were informed orally yesterday that the 20-year jail terms have now been changed to 10 years.
The seven - Fariba Kamalabadi, Jamaloddin Khanjani, Afif Naeimi, Saeid Rezaie, Mahvash Sabet, Behrouz Tavakkoli, and Vahid Tizfahm - were all members of a national-level group that, with the Iranian government's knowledge, helped see to the minimum spiritual needs of Iran's 300,000-strong Baha'i community.
The trial of the seven consisted of six brief court appearances which began on 12 January this year after they had been incarcerated without charge for 20 months. They were allowed barely one hour's access to their legal counsel during that time. The trial ended on 14 June.
The defendants were accused of propaganda activities against the Islamic order and the establishment of an illegal administration, among other allegations. All the charges were completely and categorically denied.
The seven were moved from Evin Prison after receiving their sentence to Gohardasht prison in Karaj.
Reports of the 20-year sentence provoked a chorus of condemnation from governments around the world - including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the U.K. and the U.S.A. The European Union and the President of the European Parliament also joined the protest, along with numerous human rights organizations, other groups and countless individuals.
Special Report - "The Trial of the Seven Baha'i Leaders"
The Baha'i World News Service has published a Special Report which includes articles and background information about the seven Iranian Baha'i leaders - their lives, their imprisonment, trial and sentencing - and the allegations made against them. It also offers further resources about the persecution of Iran's Baha'i community.
The Special Report can be read here.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Propaganda activities against the Islamic order
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A simple, well-told story can contain some of the deepest truths. Children’s films are a perfect example. Because they need to be relevant to young people, these films need to make their case loud and clear. That doesn’t mean they’re condescending and simplistic, that they shoot straight at it. The films that follow are those that offer basic life lessons not only to children but to adults. And adults shouldn’t be ashamed to watch them, even if there are no children in sight. (Search here to see if these movies are currently available to stream.)
“Charlotte’s canvas”: A spider weaves messages in a web to save a doomed pig.
Guardian angels are everywhere. (Joe Hoover)
‘The Goonies’: Children are chasing a pirate booty dream.
Believe in what you cannot see! (JH)
‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’: Overwhelmed by the commercialism of Christmas, Charlie Brown seeks its true meaning.
Sometimes the simple things are the most rewarding. (Lindsay Chessare)
Hand painted disney: ‘Fantasia’, ‘Snow White’, ‘Bambi’ et al.
Hand painted work = beauty of imperfection. (Deniz Demirer)
‘The Lion King’: A lion cub goes through hardships to become the king of the jungle.
You cannot run away from your fears. You must face your demons (ie, “Scars”) in order to be free and fully who God made you. (Sébastien Gomes)
A simple, well-told story can contain some of the deepest truths. Children’s films are a perfect example.
‘The beauty and the Beast’: A girl falls in love with a beast.
Living a self-centered life cuts you off from others. When life is happening and things aren’t going your way, you fight back at all costs, blame others for your problems, and end up locking yourself into your own narcissism. (SG)
“Pocahontas”: Cultures clash when Pocahontas and John Smith fall in love.
Appreciate creation, don’t exploit it. We are all connected to each other. (JD Long-Garcia)
‘Wizard of Oz’: Dorothy (and her little dog too) make friends and foes in her quest along the Yellow Brick Road to find her way home.
Sometimes the things that can make you happiest are around the house. (LC)
‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’: Mrs. Fox tries to convince Mr. Fox to give up his thief ways.
Trust your family and friends. (James Keane)
‘Open season’: Animals prevail over hunters.
Friends are how God takes care of us. Also: Be vegetarian. (Erika Rasmussen)
Because they need to be relevant to young people, these films need to make their case loud and clear.
‘The Prophet’:A dissident shares his wisdom while under house arrest.
Wisdom of Kahlil Gibran: Life is both more complicated and easier than we could ever imagine.(D)
‘Rudolph the red nosed reindeer’: A reindeer with a glowing nose is invited to drive Santa’s sleigh.
God does not play favorites; we all have a role to play. (LC)
‘Frosty the Snowman’: A snowman and a little girl protect each other from an evil magician.
Believe in the magic of children, the magic of Christmas and the story of the Child Jesus. (LC)
‘Cinderella’: Cinderella sneaks into the dance of the prince and his heart.
Kindness always trumps vanity and selfishness. (LC)
‘Mary Poppins’: Amazing nanny!
Jesus said, âLet little children come to me, and do not prevent them, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. ” (D)
‘Alice in Wonderland’: Alice is going to wonderland.
Brainstorming six impossible things before breakfast will make you believe in “the impossible” and things that are invisible, inaudible, unfulfilled. Falling into the rabbit hole in Wonderland? Fantastic reality control. (D)
‘Hugo’: The Paris orphan alone turns the clocks on time.
Imagination is one of God’s greatest gifts to us, our ability to be co-creators in this life. The mystery is entangled in who we are. (D)
‘Upside down’: Eleven-year-old pines for the Midwest.
Sometimes our feelings seem too much. Breathe deeply, it’s all in your head! Joy, sadness, anger: being human is a gift. (D)
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The last of the 175 turbines at the 630MW London Array 1 development has been installed, marking the end of major construction activities. Installation commenced in January 2012 and has been completed by the MPI Discovery and A2SEA’s Sea Worker and Sea Jack. This year alone, 84 foundations, 175 turbines, 178 array cables and three export cables have been installed at the project site, in the outer Thames estuary.
The wind farm began generating power in October 2012 and 55 of the Siemens 3.6MW turbines are now supplying power to the national grid. It is set to become fully operational in spring 2013. The focus now is on the commissioning and testing of the remaining turbines, before the project is handed over to the operations and maintenance team.
The London Array consortium partners comprise DONG Energy with 50%, E.ON (30%) and Masdar (20%). Benj Sykes, head of DONG Energy’s UK wind business, said the installation of the final turbine marked "another landmark in this flagship project for the UK and for DONG Energy".
Once it is fully commissioned, London Array 1 will become the largest operational offshore wind farm in the world. If approved, the second phase of development, London Array 2, would bring the project's total capacity to 870MW.
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The Golden Temple Miracle
The vision, values and purposes of the Sikh Dharma community
By Krishna Singh Khalsa
Since 1972 the Sikh Dharma community and the Golden Temple-Yogi Tea businesses have been respected and regarded as inseparable. Three of the qualifications for living a Sikh Dharma way of life are: to spend several hours before sunrise in yoga, meditation and prayer each day, work effectively and honestly to create prosperity, and to share with those in need. Work is inseparable from our worship and giving is inseparable from receiving.
Golden Temple was a miracle. It started with only $600, three used pizza ovens and a group of enterprising young yogis who needed to create their own jobs. In 1972, with long hair, a full beard and wearing a turban, finding employment was difficult.
Our businesses started cooperatively. Synergy, mutual intelligence and collective resolve manifested what money alone could not. Golden Temple grew to $60 million in annual sales, more than 350 living wage jobs, trend-setting healthful products, and a large market share for granolas, Peace Cereals and Yogi Tea. Soon the majority of workers were non-Sikhs, but we all worked together like family. We shared our wealth. Sikh Dharma held Golden Temple in trust for the community. We didn’t sell out to greed-based capitalism. Until now.
Internationally, we established many landmark businesses: A national chain of vegetarian restaurants, a brass bed factory, a natural shoe company, landscape companies, a security guard business with hundreds of millions now in annual revenue and a yoga organization that spans the globe. Workers were treated fairly and honestly in a “trust based” work atmosphere. Our management system recognized differences of perspective and opinion as intrinsic to the human condition. We use the tension between differences to create harmony, rather than conflict — much like using the tension on a guitar string to create music.
We evolved an extraordinary business model where nonprofit organizations are sole owners of successful for-profit businesses. Profits fuel nonprofits to do service and work in the public interest. Our founder, Yogi Bhajan, inspired everything about this culture. He loved Eugene and visited here many times. Without him, none of this would have happened.
Unfortunately, times and things have changed. Yogi Bhajan passed away in 2004. Prior to his passing, a system was created where his personal leadership was replaced by a group of trustees to hold the common wealth in trust, to manage and share the business profits with the nonprofits who own them. Obviously, motives must remain honorable and board of director operations must be transparent. A good system of organizational checks, balances, qualifications and oversight was established to keep “the trustees” honest and trust “worthy.” The documents establishing the trust were re-filed by the trustee group and their attorney three times in 2004-07. They were re-filed again in 2008, but all eligibility qualifications of conduct and personal character were eliminated.
The trustees abandoned all resemblance to the Sikh Dharma community and lifestyle. They‘ve acted in secrecy while purging Sikhs and other employees from positions they held and served for decades. Contributions to nonprofits dwindled to a fraction of 2004 levels, while their own compensations increased exponentially. We can follow the money and see what’s going on. It’s a complete corruption of their mandate of trust.
Last September, the Sikh Dharma board filed a lawsuit in Portland against the trustee board. By our best information and belief, we understand the trustees have sold Golden Temple to themselves as individuals for a fraction of its true value. They, now personally, intend to sell the company for its actual market value. Others have been lured by personal incentives to facilitate this theft of our legitimate nonprofit assets.
Guru Nanak, the 14th century founder of Sikh Dharma, said famously, “Nothing is higher than Truth, but higher still is truthful living.” As Sikhs we are moving in the courts and in our lives to transform and correct this wrong situation. We accept the situation as a “coming of age gift” and a wonderful challenge for living up to the teachings of Yogi Bhajan, who gave and sacrificed to manifest an evolutionary dream in the heart of Eugene.
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American Water Spaniel Dogs 101
The American Water Spaniel and its look a like cousin, the Irish Water Spaniel, share many commonalities. They were both bred to hunt on land and water, have shaggy coats that help protect them from cooler temperatures and are well renowned with hunting enthusiasts around the world. They are both intelligent, lively breeds that thrive on human companionship. The American Water Spaniel and Irish Water Spaniel are also rare breeds and locating one can mean spending months on a waiting list. At the same time, they also have a number of differences that have made many hunters choose one over the other for decades.
As their names might tell, the Irish Water Spaniel's country of origin is Ireland and the American Water Spaniel was developed in the United States. However, the Irish Water Spaniel is a much older breed; in fact, it is believed to be one of the oldest. The American Water Spaniel did not make its appearance until the mid to late 1800's. At sixty five pounds, the Irish Water Spaniel is the largest of the Spaniel breeds while the American only weighs in at approximately forty five pounds. Though they are commonly mistaken for each other, the Irish Water Spaniel has a tuft of frizzy hair on the top of its head while the American has a smooth rounded skull.
The American Water Spaniel was developed to be a smaller dog for the special purpose of retrieving from boats. When hunting on lakes and ponds, the larger Irish Water Spaniel retrieves from the shoreline. The American Spaniel's tail is curved with a covering of feathered hair while the Irish Spaniel's tail is covered in smooth fine hairs and often referred to as ratlike. Neither breed requires docking of the tail as they use them as rudders when running and swimming. While both have a double coat that protects them from extremely cold water, only the Irish Water Spaniel can be referred to as a hypoallergenic breed.
Already established, the Irish Water Spaniel was fine tuned in the 1830's so that it could be officially recognized by reputable kennel clubs. In approximately 1850, the breed achieved its goal and was accepted by the Westminster Kennel Club. About the time the Irish Water Spaniel gained recognition in the WKC, the American Water Spaniel was in the earliest stages of its development. Not until 1940 was the American Water Spaniel officially recognized by the American Kennel Club. The Irish Water Spaniel however had been making its own appearances in the AKC since 1877. Through the years, the American Water Spaniel and the Irish Water Spaniel have proven to offer great benefits both in the field and in the show ring.
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February 22, 2012
By Lauren Lewis
"Interdisciplinary" is a term students are starting to hear more often at the UNM Health Sciences Center. The idea that medical professionals from different disciplines never work together is fading and the opposite is being taught to students – that all medical professionals from all disciplines should and need to collaborate to improve patient outcomes.
An example of this coming to life in some of the educational curriculums around the HSC is the Geriatric Education and Health Maintenance Clinics also known as GEHM.
Originally created by the UNM College of Nursing for its students to experience real-life patient interaction, the GEHM Clinics take place in several community and senior citizen centers around Albuquerque. Students provide various health screenings like glucose and blood pressure, and offer health education such as medication management consultation.
This past fall, the College of Nursing partnered with the UNM College of Pharmacy to give pharmacy students the opportunity to participate in the clinics as an elective course. The idea was to have first-year nursing students pair with third-year pharmacy students to create a mentorship situation.
"The mentoring idea came up because we wanted to be sure that all the students were getting a full educational experience," said Catherine Cone, assistant professor, UNM College of Pharmacy. "I thought the idea of having the third-year pharmacy students mentor the first-year nursing students would be beneficial for everyone."
Third-year pharmacy student Angelica Avila was among the first group of students to take the elective last fall and is currently taking the course again for the spring semester. The experience Avila is gaining at the clinics is one she knows will help her when she's out in the workforce.
"After our second year in pharmacy school we were required to do a hospital rotation and I noticed that there was a lot of finger pointing when errors occurred or when medications were late or lost," said Avila. "I think that if we start working together when we are all students we will understand the roles of each other and know how each professional can provide help to the patient."
At the clinics, the students work together as they would in an actual outpatient setting. The nursing students take the patient's vitals and the pharmacy students look over the patient's medications and counsel them on appropriate therapies.
"This is the first time some of the nursing students are interacting with patients so we help them with blood pressure, heart rate and blood glucose screening," said Avila. "It's very cool that they get to know what we as pharmacy students are able to do and help with. When I make suggestions regarding a patient's therapy I explain to the nursing student why I made a certain recommendation. Hopefully, what I mention to them will help them in their future pharmacology classes."
Debra Muscarella, senior RN case manager and GEHM coordinator, UNM College of Nursing, said she is thrilled with how well the nursing and pharmacy collaboration has turned out for the clinics. She hopes the partnership will continue to grow to accommodate more students.
"The benefit of these clinics is that the pharmacy and nursing students learn to respect each other's profession and see how much each of them can bring to the table," said Muscarella. "If they can start working together at the very beginning of their profession, they can respect each other and be a team rather than work against each other in the future."
For more information on the GEHM clinics, contact Debra Muscarella.
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AtMKK6-AtMPK13 module positively regulates lateral root formation.[AtMPK13]
MAPK13 gene knockdown using siRNA reduced the aldehyde dehydrogenase high cell population and abrogated the tumor-initiating ability.
p38gamma and p38delta reprogram liver metabolism by modulating neutrophil infiltration and provide a potential target for NAFLD therapy
MAPK13 undergoes a larger interlobe configurational rearrangement upon activation compared with MAPK14 (show MAPK14 Proteins).
PKCdelta (show PKCd Proteins) activates a MEKK1 (show MAP3K1 Proteins)/MEK3 (show MAP2K3 Proteins)/p38delta MAPK (show MAPK1 Proteins) cascade to increase p53 (show TP53 Proteins) levels and p53 (show TP53 Proteins) drives p21(Cip1 (show CDKN1A Proteins)) gene expression.
esophageal squamous cell carcinoma cell lines which are p38delta-negative grew more quickly than cell lines which express endogenous p38delta.
DNA methylation alterations are widespread in melanoma; epigenetic silencing of MAPK13 contributes to melanoma progression
Data indicate that p38delta mediates oncogene-induced senescence through a p53- and p16(INK4A)-independent mechanism.
GSK3alpha, GSK3beta, and MAPK13 were found to be the most active tau kinases, phosphorylating tau at all four epitopes.
MAPK13 is responsible for IL-13 (show IL13 Proteins)-driven mucus production in human airway epithelial cells.
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Results reveal that p38delta contributes both cell-autonomous and paracrine effects during the course of skin tumor formation.
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p38gamma and p38delta are crucial regulators of inflammatory joint destruction in collagen-induced arthritis.
p27 inhibition of COX-2 expression was specifically due to phosphorylation of transcription factor cAMP response element binding (CREB) phosphorylation mediated by p38beta and p38delta.
Aberrant p38delta-PKD1 (show PKD1 Proteins) signaling in neutrophils may underlie development of acute lung injury and life-threatening acute respiratory distress syndrome.
p38gamma (show MAPK12 Proteins) and p38delta kinases regulate the Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4 (show TLR4 Proteins))-induced cytokine production by controlling ERK1/2 protein kinase (show CDK7 Proteins) pathway activation
results indicate that p38gamma and p38delta have a role in the suppression of tumor development
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The bathroom mirror at a little hotel in Santa Maria, California, is fogged with condensation, and there is so much steam from my morning shower that my reflection is rendered invisible. As I stand at the sink, dripping wet and wrapped in a towel, the opaque glass is now nothing but an inviting canvas of mist on which to log a thought I have been repeating in my head.
"MICHAEL JACKSON 1,000% INNOCENT," I daub with my finger, ending with a period that I convert into a smiley-face. Believe in the happy ending.
I stare at this message and focus on a visualized outcome: victory, justice and vindication. It is March 10, 2005: day eleven of the courthouse circus that sees my brother accused of child molestation.
"MICHAEL JACKSON 1,000% INNOCENT," I read again. I continue to stare at the top left corner of the mirror, watching the smiley-face start to run. Transfixed, I flash back to Michael's bathroom at the Hayvenhurst estate in Encino, outside Los Angeles— his home prior to Neverland—and know that I am mimicking in 2005 what he did in 1982. Back then, in the top left corner of his mirror, he took a black felt permanent marker—to match the black marble—and scrawled: "THRILLER! 100s MILLION SALES...SELL OUT STADIUMS."
Think it, see it, believe it, make it happen. Will it into reality, as taught to us in childhood by our mother, Katharine, and father, Joseph. "You can do this...you can do this," I can hear Joseph insisting during early, scratchy rehearsals as the Jackson 5, "we're doing this over and over until you get it right. Think about it, say it, see yourself doing it, visualize it happening...and it will happen." Plant it in your head and focus with all your heart, Mother added, more gently. This was drilled into our young minds decades before positive-thinking became fashionable. Our minds are preprogrammed not to entertain doubt or half-heartedness.
Michael knew the scale of the breakthrough, innovation and success he desired as a solo artist with the Thriller album, so that one thought transcribed on his mirror was his positive starting point. Years after his move to Neverland, the permanence of the pen's marker had flaked and the message appeared to have disappeared to the naked eye, yet it had left its imprint embedded in the glass, because each time that mirror fogged, the faintest outline of his words could still be seen, as if it were one of those secret codes written by a magic pen. Condensation and misted glass always remind me of Michael's written ambition.
From the eighties, nobody knew about a lot of what he created until its execution, but the idea or concept was written down somewhere he could see it daily, or recited into a voice recorder as a visualization he could see or hear. He didn't share ideas because he didn't want anyone to interfere; he relied on mental strength for his focus. Between November 2003—when he was arrested and charged—and this day in March 2005, he's needed that strength.
Awake at 4:30 a.m. each day of the trial, he's bracing himself, getting prepared, psyching himself up to withstand another day of ritual humiliation.
Yesterday, March 9, Gavin Arvizo, the 15-year-old boy being showcased as "the victim," began his incredible testimony, going into graphic detail. I was seated behind Michael the whole time, as I have been since the start.
Outwardly, my brother projects a hardened image: detached, expressionless, almost cold. Inwardly, the bolted brackets that had been holding him together are snapping violently under pressure, one by one.
I look at my mirrored message now fading as the air rushes in, but the intent remains stark: Michael will be found innocent. I would carve it into my grandmother's gravestone if I could. Think it, see it, believe it, make it happen.
But whatever intent I put out there is not enough to remove the ache and worry we feel as a family. I find myself constantly reflecting, going back to a time when we believed Hollywood to be only a magical place; when we believed in the Yellow Brick Road.
I watch the local news on the television in my room, looking ahead to day 11 of the trial. I think of Michael at Neverland. The cars will be pulling up in the courtyard. He will have been up four hours, eaten breakfast on a silver tray in his room, alone—stealing time on his own—before coming downstairs, giving himself 45 minutes between departure and arrival. His routine is clockwork, organized like some backstage itinerary.
I think of all he has achieved, and all he is now being put through.
How has something so beautiful turned so twisted and ugly? Did fame do it? Is this the end-game in the American dream when a black man achieves success on this magnitude? Is this what happens when an artist becomes bigger than his record label? Is this about publishing rights? Ruin the man, keep the money machine?
These are the questions that race through my mind.
Are his Hollywood friends and one-time attorneys, allies and producers staying away because they regard him as nuclear—treating friendship like a sponsorship deal? What about those divisive people who whispered into a malleable ear that we, his family, should be kept at a distance, not trusted. Why aren't they alongside him now, whispering encouragement and support?
Michael is fast realizing who his friends aren't, and what family means. But now his liberty is at stake, and everything he has built is in danger of collapsing. I want to turn back time: lift the needle up off the record and return us to the first track as the Jackson 5—a time of togetherness, unity and brotherhood. "All for one, and one for all," as Mother used to say.
I play this eternal game of "What If?" in my head and can't help but think that we could have—should have—handled things differently, especially with Michael. We kept away from him too much when he wanted his space and that allowed vultures into the vacuum. We allowed outsiders in. I should have done more. Stood my ground. Barged through the gates of Neverland when the people around him never let me in. I should have seen this coming and been there to protect him. I feel a dereliction of duty in the promise of brotherhood we always had.
The cell phone rings. It's Mother, sounding alarmed. "Michael is at the hospital . . . We're here with him . . . He's slipped and fallen. It's his back."
"I'm on my way," I say, already out the door.
The hotel is equidistant from the Santa Maria courthouse and Neverland, and the hospital is a short detour. I'm met at a side entrance by a hospital manager to avoid any fuss out front.
On the hospital's second-floor corridor, I see an unusual number of nurses and patients hanging around and an audible fuss dies down as I approach. A presidential-style phalanx of familiar dark-suited bodyguards is clustered around a closed door to a private room. They step aside to allow me to enter.
Inside, the curtains are drawn.
In the half-light, Michael is standing, wearing patterned blue pajama bottoms and a black jacket. "Hi, Erms," he says, in almost a whisper.
"Are you okay?" I ask.
"I just hurt my back." He forces a smile.
The fall at the ranch, when getting out of the shower, has left him in miserable pain and it appears to be the final punch at a time when life keeps pounding him. But he's a child molester, right? He deserves this, right? The police must have some hard evidence, or he wouldn't be on trial, right? People have a lot to learn about how wrong this trial is.
Mother and Joseph are the only other people here, sitting against the wall to my right; they are like me in not knowing what to do but be present and appear strong. Michael winces with the pain in his rib-cage and lower back, but I sense his mental pain is far greater.
In the past week, I have witnessed his physical disintegration. At 46 years old, his lean dancer's body has withered to a fragile frame; his walk has become a pained, faltering gait; his dazzle is reduced to that forced smile; he looks gaunt, haggard.
I hate what it's doing to him and I want it to stop. I want to scream for the scream that Michael has never had in him.
As he stands, he talks about the court testimony yesterday. "They are putting me through this to finish me . . . to turn everyone against me. It's their plan . . . it's a plan," he says.
Our father has never been one for deep emotional examination and, as Michael talks, I can see him itching to divert the conversation toward other plans: a concert in China.
"Your sense of timing is not good, Joe!" Mother tells him in admonishment.
"What better time is there than now?" he says. That's Joseph. Very direct, and interpreting this time away from court as a small window to discuss something other than the trial. "It'll take his mind off things," he adds.
It doesn't surprise or sidetrack Michael. Like the rest of us, he's used to it and understands that this is Joseph's way. I interpret it as a father's ploy to deflect his own worry about events he can't control; to look beyond the trial to a time when Michael is free and able to perform again. Indicate light at the end of the tunnel. But it doesn't feel like a distraction, it feels inappropriate. Anyway, my brother keeps talking. "What have I done but good? I don't understand . . ."
I know what he's thinking: he's done nothing but create music to entertain and spread the message of hope, love and humanity, and awareness of how we should be with one another—especially with children—yet he is accused of harming a child. It's akin to putting Santa Claus on trial for entering the bedrooms of children.
There is not one shred of evidence to justify this trial. The FBI knows it. The police know it. Sony knows it. This irrefutable truth would be confirmed by an FBI statement in 2009, making it clear after my brother's death there was never any evidence to support any allegation in 16 years of investigations. The authorities are just making something fit in 2005. Think it, see it, believe it, make it happen. The negative version.
Michael lifts his eyes from the floor. He looks the saddest I have ever seen him, but I can tell he just wants to talk. Up until now, he has rarely released his emotions in front of us. He has been controlled and resolute, speaking about his faith, how he trusts the judge of God, not the judge in a robe. But his controlled demeanor is now undone, no doubt triggered by yesterday's testimony, and compounded by the frustration of this back injury.
It's all becoming too much.
"Everything they say about me is untrue. Why are they saying these things?"
"Oh, baby . . ." says Mother, but Michael's hand rises. He's still talking.
"They're saying all these horrible things about me. I'm this. I'm that. I'm bleaching my skin. I'm hurting kids. I would never . . . It's untrue, it's all untrue," he says, his voice quiet, quivering.
He starts pulling at his jacket, like an exasperated child wanting to get out of a costume, shifting on to both his feet, ignoring his back pain.
"Michael..." Mother starts.
But the tears are coming now. "They can accuse me and make the world think they're so right, but they are so wrong . . . they are so wrong."
Joseph is paralyzed by this show of emotion. Mother's hands are to her face. Michael pulls at his jacket buttons and starts struggling out of its sleeves. It falls off his shoulders and hangs backward from his upper arms, revealing his bare chest.
He is sobbing. "Look at me! . . . Look at me! I'm the most misunderstood person in the world!" He breaks down.
He stands in front of us, head bowed, as if he feels shame. It is the first time I have seen the true extent of his skin condition, and it shocks me. His self-consciousness is such that he has kept his body hidden from even his family until now. His torso is light brown, splashed with vast areas and blotches of white, spreading across his upper chest; one patch of white covers his ribs and stomach, another runs down his side, and blotches cover one shoulder and upper arm. There is more white than brown, his natural skin color: he looks like a white man splashed with coffee. This is the skin condition—the vitiligo—that a cynical world says he doesn't have, preferring to believe that he bleaches his skin.
"I've tried to inspire . . . I've tried to teach . . ." and his voice trails off as Mother goes to comfort him.
"God knows the truth. God knows the truth," she keeps repeating.
We all surround him, unable to hug him tight due to his back, but it is comfort nonetheless. I help put his jacket back on. "Just be strong, Michael," I said. "Everything's going to be all right."
It doesn't take him long to compose himself and he apologizes. "I'm strong. I'm okay," he says.
I leave him with my parents, vowing to return to the trial after a visit overseas. The brothers are taking it in shifts to provide support and I'll be back in a few days.
After I leave, the bodyguards convey a message relayed from his attorney, Tom Mesereau, at the courthouse. The judge is not happy that Michael is late, and if he's not in court within the hour, his bail will be revoked. Even his genuine pain is not honored or believed.
At the hotel, I finish packing and watch my brother's delayed arrival at court on television. Shielded by an umbrella to protect his skin from the sun, he shuffles along just as I left him: in his pajama bottoms and black jacket, now wearing a white undershirt. Joseph and a bodyguard stand on either side, holding him steady.
Michael had always wanted to appear pristine and dignified for his trial, choosing his wardrobe carefully. To enter like this, in his pajamas, will be making him cringe inwardly. This whole circus seems to be careening out of control . . . and we are only ten days in.
I grab the hotel phone and make a call. The person on the other end of the line provides the reassurance that I needed to hear one more time: Yes, the private jet is still available. Yes, it can be at Van Nuys airport. Yes, everything has been arranged. Yes, we are ready to go whenever you are. All that is required is a day's notice, and this DC-8 with four engines will have Michael up in the air and heading east to Bahrain—to start a new life away from the scam of American justice. After this charade, I'm happy to disown my citizenship and take Michael, and his family, to a place where they can't touch him. We have the backer a dear friend. We have the pilot. Everything is prepared. There is no way my brother—an innocent man—is going to jail for this. He wouldn't survive, and I cannot sit back and even contemplate the possibility, let alone the reality.
We've arranged "Plan B" without his knowledge, but when I had told him not to worry because every scenario is covered, he will have suspected something, without wishing to know. He doesn't need to. Not yet.
I have negotiated with myself that the moment Tom Meserau starts to suggest that the scales of justice are tilting against us, I will action the plan and move him to the airport in the San Fernando Valley, outside L.A. We'll sneak him out of Neverland under a blanket, during the night. Or something. In the meantime, I resolve to play it hour by hour because, so far, Tom has said nothing other than "yes, that was a good day for us," even when the testimony sounded horrible. He knows the evidential nuances, and when the prosecution is swinging with its punches and missing. We've quickly learned not to judge the trial by its truncated media coverage. So, I bide my time, but this trust takes all my power and has me writing messages on bathroom mirrors.
As I hit the road and drive south on auto-pilot, I start to wonder where Michael resources the strength and belief that is pulling him through this. I feel immense pride in him—at a time when he is presumed guilty until proven innocent by a media coverage that is unbalanced. It trumpets the weird and titillating testimony, leaving valid defense points as a postscript. I remember what Michael said at the start of these proceedings in 2003: "Lies run in sprints, but the truth runs in marathons . . . and the truth will win." The truest lyric he never sang.
I start to visualize him walking free from the criminal court. I picture it like a scene in a movie. When this is over, I will do everything I can to clear his name in the public arena. The worst will be behind us. There will be nothing else they can throw at him. And I will defend him because I know what makes him tick—his heart, his soul, his spirit, his purpose. I know the boy inside the superstar's costume. I know the brother from 2300 Jackson Street. We have been in sync since infancy, throughout everything: the dream, the Jackson 5, the fame, the separate paths, the rifts, the sorrows, the scandals, and the impossible pressure. He has cried with me. I have shouted in his face. He has refused to see me. He has begged me to be with him. We have known each other's loyalty and each other's unintended betrayal. And it is because of everything contained within this history—this brotherhood—that I know his character and mind like only true blood can.
One day, I tell myself—when 2005 is behind us—people will give him a break and attempt understanding, not judgment. They'll treat him with the same gentleness and compassion he extended to everyone else. They'll cast aside their preconceived ideas and view him not just through his music but as a human being: imperfect, complex, fallible. Someone very different from his external image.
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If you are traveling to Greece during summer 2015 you might want to know a thing or two about the currently undergoing negotiations. Please read about travelling to Greece during the economic crisis...
Greece's monetary unit is the Euro. No other currency is accepted and it is best to exchange dollars or other currency at a bank. The exchange rates are all the same throughout the country and you exchange money at a bank or official exchange shop where you will get the best running rates. Currency exchange shops and banks in very touristy areas charge high commissions, so make sure you know what the commissions are before you commit to a transaction. Banks are open from 9:00 AM until 2:00 PM. At the new airport near the luggage pickup you can find machines that can exchange foreign currency and return Euro. Very nice indeed since you need the Euro for a luggage cart.
It goes without saying that if you come from any Eurozone country you would not have to worry about exchanging any money since the Euro is the common currency of the countries in the Eurozone (but you already knew this, right?).
Source: Greek National Tourist Organization. Republished by permission
While everyone assumes that cash is accepted everywhere, and that's actually true, there have been times when cash in large denominations is not very convenient. I have had banks in Greece refusing to exchange $50 or $100 bills, but I never had problems with $20 bills.
Traveler's Checks are accepted in most places and shops, especially in areas where tourists frequent, but if you venture off the tourist track, you will find that people have no idea what they are, so make sure you exchange them for cash at a local bank.
Even in businesses that take travelers cheques, you might have a hard time paying or exchanging large denominations of traveler's checks especially (fifties or hundreds). I have found large bills are treated with suspicion by vendors, and some might not accept them. Exchanging them for cash at a bank is no problem though.
Although their use has been diminished worldwide in favor of more convenient ways to access money (credit and debit cards), they might offer some security for those who prefer to use them. That's because they require the owner's signature, and if they are lost, they can be replaced. You should have your passport with you when you pay with traveler's checks to verify your identity.
The best way to access money while in Greece is through the ubiquitous ATMs that are present in every large or small city. If you have a debit card that doubles as a Visa or MC you can access your money right from your bank account back home, and of course you can get cash advances from your credit card.
The ATMs disperse Euro, and the only problem is that I am never sure what exchange rate is used for the conversion, but the convenience is worth the wait until the bank statement arrives. every bank in Greece has an updated currency conversion chart displayed on its window, so you can get an idea how much money you really withdraw (at least your calculation will be close).
Make sure you keep all receipts though for a few months after you return home. A few years ago, a bank I withdrew money from in Greece double-charged me by error. The error was automatically corrected a few days later, but this made me keep all ATM receipts for months after my return from Greece. In the past twelve years that I have been using ATMs in Greece, this was the only glitch.
Before you go to Greece, find out if your destination has an ATM. Chances are good that it does, but some small towns don't have a bank. Also, we have all encountered an ATM that is out of service for a period of time. Now think what you would do if the only ATM in the town you stay in Greece is out of order and you desperately need to pay your hotel and fly home in a few hours. This has happened to us and other friends, so I have made it a habit to get money from ATMs a day or two before I need it.
Elafonisos island had no bank the first time we visited (it does now), so I took the ferry to the mainland and drove for half hour after that to find an ATM at Neapoli before I returned to the island to pay for our apartment. Another year I had to drive from Sidari to Roda because the only ATM that accepted my card was out of order for a few days.
Some ATMs don't allow withdrawals above a certain amount. This is usually the case in very busy parts of popular towns (like Fira in Santorini), so there is always another ATM nearby. In Thera the closest machine to us only dispensed $100 at a time, which made it hard to draw the funds to pay for our hotel bill that was many times that amount.
Your own bank will probably have a limit on the amount patrons can withdraw through ATMs. Before you leave for Greece check with your bank to see what the withdraw limit is per day. Also check to see what fees are associated with such withdraws. Most banks charge a fee for foreign exchange as well as for using an ATM that does not belong to them. In addition you will probably charged a fee by the bank that owns the ATM you use in Greece. Banks don’t handle our money for free ;)
Whatever the case, you must call your bank to let them know that you are traveling abroad so they can make a note in your account. Bank security software flags foreign transactions and they might block your debit card if they find large purchases in another country (a major sign of fraud) until they verify it's you that's using the card, and you you don't want that kind of surprise while you are on vacation.
Personal checks are not widely accepted in Greece, so don't assume that you can use them unless you have checked with the establishment before hand. Cashing personal checks at a bank is also not possible.
Almost every shop hotel and restaurant accepts credit cards, but many shops in small towns don't.
The signs are usually posted on the door of each store but over the years I have grown suspicious of such signs. In certain instances credit card logo signs are left on the door when an establishment changed owners, or they were simply on a part that was installed at a store. If you pump gas and notice credit card logos on the pumps it could mean that the gas station accepts credit cards, or that the logos were on the pumps when they were installed, or that the previous owner installed them and the new owner left them on for decoration.
It would be best to check with the establishment to see if they accept credit cards before you make your purchases.
Most credit cards charge a fee (about 3%) for currency exchange, which means that every time you use your credit card in Greece (to pay in Euro) you add this fee to the price of goods and services. Check with your credit cart company before you go to see what their policy is.
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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. Quality of being ropy; viscosity.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state or property of being ropy, or of containing ropes; stringiness, or capability of being drawn out in a string or thread without breaking, as of glutinous substances; viscosity; adhesiveness.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. the property of being cohesive and sticky
Sorry, no etymologies found.
_ -- This consists of stirring the hot soap in the frames by hand crutches (Fig. 5) until the temperature is sufficiently lowered and the soap begins to assume a "ropiness".
It doesn't have the ropiness of some of my earlier handspun and I'm glad to see there's some improvement.
To prevent the otherwise inevitable heaviness and possible ropiness in my loaves of the future, some such previous process would certainly have to be adopted.
This comprises fining with some gelatinous substance, and, as a precaution against ropiness and other maladies, liquid tannin is at the same time frequently added to supply the place of the natural tannin which has departed from the wine with its reddish hue at the epoch of its first fermentation.
Their molasses comes from the same country, and has the name of "long sugar" in Carolina, I suppose from the ropiness of it, and serves all the purposes of sugar, both in their eating and drinking.
The Westover Manuscripts: Containing the History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina; A Journey to the Land of Eden, A. D. 1733; and A Progress to the Mines. Written from 1728 to 1736, and Now First Published
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Hey everyone and thank you for joining me for this week’s Friday Finance with Josh! Just in case you’re new here, my name’s Joshua Rodriguez and I write about all types of fun personal finance topics here. Today, I’m going to write a bit about a pretty scary concept, credit card fraud. The truth is, we as human beings are no strangers to fraud! Even the first currencies made of metals were counterfeited, it’s just part of life. Unfortunately, there are only so many bright crayons in the box!
That being said, even though currencies have changed over time, the simple fact remains, fraud still exists! As a matter of fact, due to the ease of online identity theft, it seems to happen more now than ever before. But, the good news is, there are ways that you can protect yourself from your account numbers being stolen. And, they are not only free but, they’re pretty simple! As long as you do 3 things consistently, you can be 99.9% sure that you aren’t the next credit card fraud victim and, that if you are, you will catch it quickly enough for it not to affect your finances!
#1 Credit Card Fraud Protection Measure – Keep An Eye On Your Accounts
Being concerned with credit card fraud is one thing but, missing the dates on reporting it is an entirely new animal. However, if you actively keep an eye on your accounts, you can be sure to report the fraud within the 6 month period that most credit cards allow. It’s pretty simple. Once a week, all you need to do is log in to your account or accounts online and read each line of purchases. If you see something that doesn’t seem familiar, it’s time to report it. I’ll teach you more about reporting credit card fraud below!
#2 Credit Card Fraud Protection Measure – Be Careful Online
Credit card fraud does happen through face to face transactions, however, it is far more likely when it comes to online transactions. The good news is, we have tools that protect us online. As a matter of fact, protection of personal information is the reason SSL Security Certificates were created. These certificates certify that the information entered into a page will only go to the parties the information was intended for and that information hijackers will have a hard time breaking the code to the page. It’s pretty easy to tell if a page has an SSL Security Certificate, all you need to do is look at the beginning of the URL. If it starts with http: the page you are on is not secure. However, if it starts in https: the page you are on has a valid SSL Security Certificate.
#3 Credit Card Fraud Protection Measure – Report Credit Card Fraud Early
If you’re checking your accounts regularly and keeping a close eye on your purchases, it will be pretty easy to notice anything out of place quickly. Which is great because when fraud happens, it often happens again. If you notice a purchase that you didn’t make, you should report it to your credit card lender right away. To do so, all you need to do is call the 800 customer service phone number on the back of your card. When a representative asks how they can help you, all you need to do is say that you would like to speak to the fraud department and answer the questions that they ask about the fraudulent charge. The lender will automatically credit your account for the amount in most cases and start an investigation.
Credit card fraud is unfortunate but, it does happen. The good news is, it’s pretty simple to protect yourself and, it’s free. All you need to do is take proactive steps to ensure that your information is safe. I hope that you enjoyed this week’s Friday Finance with Josh. If you have any questions or concerns about what was said here today, please feel free to email me directly at Joshua@CNAFinance.com! | <urn:uuid:a27b3871-8f46-4522-855a-97eb64f5e5ce> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.pennypinchinmom.com/how-to-protect-yourself-from-credit-card-fraud/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720845.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00085-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950631 | 830 | 1.914063 | 2 |
IPv6 common terms and concepts are defined as follows:
• Node Any device that runs an implementation of IPv6. This includes routers and hosts.
• Router A node that can forward IPv6 packets not explicitly addressed to itself. On an IPv6 network, a router also typically advertises its presence and host configuration information.
• Host A node that cannot forward IPv6 packets not explicitly addressed to itself (a nonrouter). A host is typically the source and a destination of IPv6 traffic, and it silently discards traffic received that is not explicitly addressed to itself.
• Upper-layer protocol A protocol above IPv6 that uses IPv6 as its transport. Examples include Internet layer protocols such as ICMPv6 and Transport layer protocols such as TCP and UDP (but not Application layer protocols such as FTP and DNS, which use TCP and UDP as their transport).
• Link The set of network interfaces that are bounded by routers and that use the same 64-bit IPv6 unicast address prefix. Other terms for “link” are subnet and network segment. Many link-layer technologies are already defined for IPv6, including typical LAN technologies (such as Ethernet and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers [IEEE] 802.11 wireless) and wide area network (WAN) technologies (such as the Point-to-Point Protocol [PPP] and Frame Relay). Additionally, IPv6 packets can be sent over logical links representing an IPv4 or IPv6 network, by encapsulating the IPv6 packet within an IPv4 or IPv6 header.
• Network Two or more subnets connected by routers. Another term for network is internetwork.
• Neighbors Nodes connected to the same link. Neighbors in IPv6 have special significance because of IPv6 Neighbor Discovery, which has facilities to resolve neighbor linklayer addresses and detect and monitor neighbor reachability.
• Interface The representation of a physical or logical attachment of a node to a link. An example of a physical interface is a network adapter. An example of a logical interface is a “tunnel” interface that is used to send IPv6 packets across an IPv4 network by encapsulating the IPv6 packet inside an IPv4 header.
• Address An identifier that can be used as the source or destination of IPv6 packets that is assigned at the IPv6 layer to an interface or set of interfaces.
• Packet The protocol data unit (PDU) that exists at the IPv6 layer and is composed of an IPv6 header and payload.
• Link MTU The maximum transmission unit (MTU)—the number of bytes in the largest IPv6 packet—that can be sent on a link. Because the maximum frame size includes the link-layer medium headers and trailers, the link MTU is not the same as the maximum frame size of the link. The link MTU is the same as the maximum payload size of the link-layer technology. For example, for Ethernet using Ethernet II encapsulation, the maximum Ethernet frame payload size is 1500 bytes. Therefore, the link MTU is 1500. For a link with multiple link-layer technologies (for example, a bridged link), the link MTU is the smallest link MTU of all the link-layer technologies present on the link.
• Path MTU The maximum-sized IPv6 packet that can be sent without performing host fragmentation between a source and destination over a path in an IPv6 network. The path MTU is typically the smallest link MTU of all the links in the path.
A site is an autonomously operating IP-based network that is connected to the IPv6 Internet. Network architects and administrators within the site determine the addressing plan and routing policy for the organization network. An organization can have multiple sites. The actual connection to the IPv6 Internet can be either of the following types:
• Direct The connection to the IPv6 Internet uses a wide area network link (such as Frame Relay or T-Carrier) and connects to an IPv6-capable.
• Tunneled The connection to the IPv6 Internet uses an IPv6 over IPv4 tunnel and connects to an IPv6 tunneling router.
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Durbar and Idea of India
Some words and phrases gain traction from time to time in our daily discourse. One such word that I have noticed being used quite often these days is ‘Idea of India’. It is a lofty phrase and a flexible one too. Suddenly in every discussion from Gujarat elections to Minority rights you will find the phrase ‘Idea of India’ being used liberally. However, most of these commentators discussing ‘Idea of India’ usually do it from the confines of their studios and air conditioned offices. Tavleen Singh, reputed journalist and columnist, also tries to answer ‘Idea of India’ in her book Durbar, but not from the confines of air conditioned room. She does it the old fashioned way of understanding India by traveling throughout the country as a political reporter thus getting a unique perspective.
At the outset, it is important to get this disclaimer out of the way. Durbar is not about Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi or Sonia Gandhi. Durbar is also not about petty palace gossip and hearsay. Durbar does not reveal any great secrets that have been hitherto unknown. Durbar is certainly not a story of a bitter woman denied access to the hallowed echelons of power. Instead, Durbar is a story of India and its rulers. The real protagonist of this story is India and Tavleen Singh doubles up as a character and a narrator with an astonishing insight.
First thing that strikes you when you read Durbar is its title. Durbar or royal court is how Tavleen ironically chooses to describe the story of India from 1975 to 1991, story of two lost decades, story of oppressive dynast paving way for bumbling dynast and India suffering in between. The story of lost opportunities and tragic consequences. This story parallels her own story as a political journalist. Tavleen became a journalist by accident (by her own admission, journalism course in Delhi polytechnic was the shortest and she preferred that over other disciplines only for that reason). Her first journalism job came to her as an accident too, but she sinks her teeth into the profession metamorphosing in one of India’s finest political reporters with great deal of understanding, particularly about strife torn Kashmir and Punjab. Durbar mesmerizes the reader from the first word and as Tavleen makes India of 70’s and 80’s come alive and her book reads more like a thriller than history.
The basic premise of Durbar is disappointment in Rajiv Gandhi’s tenure as Prime Minister. With unprecedented mandate, as a result of sympathy wave created by Indira Gandhi’s assassination and people desperately looking for a change after Indira’s turbulent rein and brief but unsuccessful flirtation with Janata party, Rajiv symbolized youth, progress and modernity. Although Rajiv had no administrative experience, had been active in politics only for 5 years, yet after his mother’s assassination found himself in the Prime Minister’s chair. People of India were hungry for change. If this blatant and unfair dynastic succession bothered them, they were willing to gloss it over for ‘A shining city on a hill’. Rajiv of course was unprepared for the mammoth task of leading the world’s largest democracy. Right from the Sikh massacre of 1984 by Congress goons, which he sadly justified, Rajiv Gandhi was on a reverse trajectory. Surrounded by group of advisors who were chosen only because of their proximity to him and not because of any expertise, Rajiv’s tenure was marred by one misadventure after other. While Tavleen does not absolve Rajiv of any responsibility, she does blame it on his motley group of advisors or ‘Durbar’. Courtiers of Rajiv’s Durbar belonged to the same social strata that Tavleen belongs to. She witnessed their drawing room conversations and realizes how insulated they were from the reality. Tavleen in a sense is both insider and outsider. While she socializes with this group, her journalistic assignments also take her to the world this Durbar rules but never interacts with. This unique position gives Tavleen an advantage of better understanding the complete breakdown of communication between the Lutyens’ Delhi and rest of India.
Interspersed with interesting anecdotes and conversations, Tavleen walks the reader through Rajiv’s biggest follies. Kashmir has always been a cauldron of simmering discontent, but Rajiv Gandhi had one last chance to bring it back from brink. The disastrous coalition with Farooq Abdullah’s National Conference and subsequent rigging of elections was sufficient to blow the lid completely over. Separatists, who had been lurking in shadows, took advantage of the situation and terrorism engulfed the valley leaving the trail of death and destruction. Mishandling of Kashmir remains the biggest blot of Rajiv’s tenure perhaps following the trail of his grandfather, Jawahar Lal Nehru who initially lit the Kashmir bonfire by going to United Nations against Sardar Patel’s wishes.
A fair assessment of Rajiv Gandhi’s tenure has never been done. His tragic and untimely death prevents any dispassionate analysis of his leadership. However, as Tavleen describes in her book, understanding of Rajiv’s era is very important if we want to make sense of current political scenario. Seeds of dynastic politics that were sown with his ascent to the top job have fructified now with Sonia becoming the de facto Prime Minister and Rahul being groomed as future Prime Minister. If there is any resentment about this within the Congress party it is not visible or has been suitably silenced.
Rajiv’s lack of leadership and inability to grasp complexities of India are evident from two issues that are his legacy to the nation. Disastrous Shahbano case and Ramjanam Bhoomi Temple issue. As Tavleen says the word ‘Appeasement’ began to be heard a lot around Rajiv’s era. By trying to appease Muslims by overriding Supreme Court judgment Rajiv laid foundation for the word that is now used frequently- ‘Pseudo Secularism’. Similarly if Ramjanam Bhoomi temple locks were opened to appease Hindus and balance out his earlier pandering to Muslims, it achieved just the opposite effect. Rajiv was largely instrumental in festering the anger of ordinary Indians and a fresh wave of communalism gripped the country. Rajiv was not suitable for the job, he had been thrust into. An airline pilot who had showed no interest in politics till his brother Sanjay Gandhi died in an air crash was a reluctant politician. Indira groomed him as her heir after Sanjay’s death and her assassination propelled him into the position that he was completely unprepared for. To compensate for his unpreparedness he needed ‘Durbar’, a group of courtiers who advised him. However, a leader is known by the advisors he chooses. Rajiv’s advisors were as ‘babalog’, as unprepared, as outrageously out of touch as he was. The tradition of Durbar had been bequeathed to Rajiv from his mother. Towards the later part of her regime Indira had also cultivated what was popularly known as her kitchen cabinet, sycophants who rarely disagreed with her.
The finest moment in Tavleen’s career and therefore in the book as well is her coverage and insight into Operation Blue star and Punjab insurgency. Tavleen painstakingly describes rise of Bhindranwale covertly with the prodding of Congress, and then turning hostile. She had a chance of interviewing Bhindranwale and witness Sikh insurgency first hand. Tavleen braving all odds to enter Amritsar, in spite of curfew and martial law like situation after Operation blue Star has to be the finest moment of her journalistic career. Another fine moment comes later when she covered Orissa famine. Operation Blue Star saw a very high number of casualties amongst armed forces. Tavleen describes how under prepared they were for such an operation. An operation of such a magnitude with flawed intelligence and lack of even basic maps of Golden Temple could only result in high fatalities.
Durbar is an important book, because it is not merely a narration of historical events. It is important because it tells us what is wrong with the ‘Idea of India’. Dynastic succession which makes a farce of our democracy apart from stunting merit, and politics of entitlement which keeps India poor and corrupt. Tavleen rues basic city planning, welfare schemes and corruption. A recurring theme in her book is ‘Socialist’ India that is gnawing the real potential of India. Rajiv with his mandate had the chance of reversing the free fall but chose to go with his mother’s disastrous socialistic ideas. While Rahul Gandhi goes around the nation screaming that his father brought computers to India, Tavleen describes without opening the economy up, how difficult it was to acquire computers in Rajiv Era. Real change came only with Narshimha Rao’s dismantling of license Raj and first round of economic reforms that let the country breathe.
General Elections in 2014 will be another turning point in India’s history. Will India choose continuation of Dynasty or will it welcome Meritocracy? Will India choose appeasement of some or progress for all? Will India choose politics of entitlement or will it choose growth and opportunities for everyone? Will India choose more of the same or will it choose to break from history? Will the ‘Idea of India’ be defined by today’s Durbar or will it be defined by ordinary person and his aspirations? Nobody knows the answers but it might well be worth reading Tavleen Singh’s Durbar before we head into 2014.
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"The California Teachers Association and California State Teachers’ Retirement System are opposing a bill that would limit pension “spiking,” the practice of boosting salaries right before retirement to increase pension payouts.
SB 27, authored by Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, applies to the California Public Employees’ Retirement System and CalSTRS. The law would trigger an audit if a public employee’s salary increases 25 percent or more during the final five years on the job. It also would put restrictions on non-salary compensation that increases pension payments, such as life insurance, car allowances, housing, unused vacation and sick pay..."
No surprise here. The teachers pension system, CalSTRS, is severly underfunded and the teachers union is busy protecting pension spiking. Why? Because, just like CalPERS, they expect the taxpayers to cover ALL funding shortfalls that are caused by bad policy and or pension spiking abuses by their own members.
What they should be worried about is how they can afford to send out pension checks, for the next 30 years, when the will be out of money. If you think the teachers unions are unreasonable now, just wait until the size of the checks shrinks... it is happening in RI...or they try to double or triple the cost to the tax payer.
At a time when we need to control costs, the teachers unions are heading in the opposite direction.
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To test a burner element receptacle:
- Before repairs or testing can begin you must disconnect the electricity at the fuse panel, at the circuit breaker panel, or by pulling the plug. Make sure the power is off before proceeding. A jolt from 220 volts can be fatal, use caution!
- Examine the receptacle
- Most receptacles are mounted to the cooktop by one or two screws.
- Some receptacles can be disassembled for inspection and the internal terminals can be replaced. Burned or melted areas are usually visible, however it is advisable to test for continuity whether or not damage is visible.
- If a receptacle shows signs of being burned or melted or if it shows no continuity it should be replaced.
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Kenny Walter is an editor with HCPLive. Prior to joining MJH Life Sciences in 2019, he worked as a digital reporter covering nanotechnology, life sciences, material science and more with R&D Magazine. He graduated with a degree in journalism from Temple University in 2008 and began his career as a local reporter for a chain of weekly newspapers based on the Jersey shore. When not working, he enjoys going to the beach and enjoying the shore in the summer and watching North Carolina Tar Heel basketball in the winter.
In a late-breaking abstract, investigators test nanoparticle treatment using in vivo models.
Kira Astakhova, PhD
Investigators continue to test new methods, such as nanoparticles, to treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
In data planned for presentation during the European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR) 2020 meeting, a team, led by Kira Astakhova, PhD, Stanford University, examined whether reducing antibodies to citrullinated proteins and peptides (ACPAs) could have a therapeutic effect by blocking cytokine production in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
While several in vitro studies have pointed to a pathogenic role of ACPAs in the disease, there has not been in vivo proof showing this concept has been hampered by a lack of therapeutic strategies to either reduce or deplete antibodies to citrullinated proteins and peptides in serum and synovial fluid.
In the past, the research team constructed a chitosan-hyaluronic acid nanoparticle formulation able to use neutrophil recruitment as a delivery mechanism to inflamed joints, which specifically got phagocytosed and then released to synovial fluid upon death of the short-lived neutrophils.
The nanoparticles were developed using the microdroplet method, and was then decorated with synthetic cyclic citrullinated peptide aptamer PEO2, PEG/hexanoic acid and fluorophore (Cy5.5). The investigators characterized the nanoparticles by dynamic light scattering, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and high-performance liquid chromatography.
The investigators then used the nanoparticles in a series of in vitro assays, including cell uptake with flow cytometry (FACS) detection, and in vivo studies including disease activity scores, cytokine measurements, and near-infrared imaging.
The team also screened a series of citrullinated peptide epitopes and identified a fibrinogen-derived 21-amino-acid-long citrullinated peptide showing high selectivity toward autoantibodies in rheumatoid arthritis samples.
The average nanoparticle size was 230 nm ± 10 nm by DLS and SEM and the z potential was -0.0012. In addition, the purity by HPLC was 95%. And attachment efficiency of the aptamer was 92% by HPLC.
The FACS study showed selective uptake of Cy5.5 labelled aptamer-nanoparticle conjugates by neutrophils in the concentration range 0.5-4 nM, but similar to previous studies, there was no apparent immunogenicity for this nanoparticle formulation measured by cytokine secretion from human peripheral blood leukocytes.
In vivo, the researchers found an over 50% reduction in disease activity after 3 weeks of treatment using as little as 1nM drug candidate dosed every 48 hours in the collagen-induced mouse model of RA (n = 30; P <0.001 for treated vs placebo).
The same thing was observed in the serum transfer model (n = 10).
“Overall, we have designed a first-in-class therapeutic nanoparticle drug for specific targeting of anti-citrullinated protein antibodies,” the authors wrote. “The marked effect of this nanoparticle observed in vivo holds promise for targeting ACPAs as a therapeutic option in RA.”
Treatment for rheumatoid arthritis has improved in recent years. Last August, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), approved upadacitinib (RINVOQ) for the treatment of adults with moderately to severely active RA who have an inadequate response or intolerance to methotrexate.
Outcome improvements were notably significant for patients who had also reported inadequate response or intolerance to methotrexate or other monotherapies. Some patients administered 15 mg or 30 mg upadaticinib reported improved joint pain within 2 weeks.
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Ferrous iron commonly substitutes for some of the magnesium in dolomite, and a complete series very likely extends between dolomite and ankerite [∼CaFe(CO3)2]. Manganese also substitutes for magnesium, but typically only to the extent of a few percent and in most cases only along with iron. Other cations known to substitute—albeit in only relatively minor amounts—within the dolomite structure are barium and lead for calcium and zinc and cobalt for magnesium.
- Dolomite makes up approximately 2 percent of the Earth’s crust. The bulk of the dolomite constitutes dolostone formations that occur as thick units of great areal extent in many sequences of chiefly marine strata. (The rock dolostone is referred to by only the mineral name—i.e. dolomite—by many geologists.)
- Dolomite as a mineral has very few uses. However dolostone has an enormous number of uses because it occurs in deposits that are large enough to mine
USES OF DOLOMITE
The most common use for dolostone is in the construction industry. It is crushed and sized for use as a road base material, an aggregate in concrete and asphalt, railroad ballast, rip-rap or fill.
It is also calcined in the production of cement and cut into blocks of specific size known as “dimension stone”
Dolomite’s reaction with acid also makes it useful. It is used for acid neutralization in the chemical industry, in stream restoration projects and as a soil conditioner. Dolomite is used as a source of magnesia (MgO), a feed additive for livestock, a sintering agent and flux in metal processing and as an ingredient in the production of glass, bricks and ceramics. Dolomite serves as the host rock for many lead, zinc and copper deposits. These deposits form when hot, acidic hydrothermal solutions move upward from depth through a fracture system that encounters a dolomitic rock unit. These solutions react with the dolomite which causes a drop in pH that triggers the precipitation of metals from solution. Dolomite also serves as an oil and gas reservoir rock. During the conversion of calcite to dolomite a volume reduction occurs. This can produce pore spaces in the rock that can be filled with oil or natural gas that migrate in as they are released from other rock units. This makes the dolomite a reservoir rock and a target of oil and gas drilling. | <urn:uuid:f6cafaf3-5056-43a3-b755-b5cca2e8b7bd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://egypt-stone.net/dolomite-2-3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.952103 | 546 | 3.40625 | 3 |
The Cabinet Sunday approved a memorial site to Jewish soldiers who fought in World War II and helped the victory over the Nazi regime. Half of the funding will come from the government and half from external sources.
The memorial sites will be established near the IDF Armored Corps memorial site at Latrun, off the highway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Another site in Netanya will commemorate the Red Army’s victory over the Nazis. Thousands of former Soviet Bloc Jews now living in Israel fought in the war for the Soviet army.
"Our people were in danger of annihilation and mobilized,” Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the Cabinet. “They were ready to sacrifice and indeed sacrificed much. We will commemorate and remember these people. It is due to their sacrifice that we are here.”
Approximately half a million American Jews fought in World War II. In the Soviet Union, where approximately two million Jews were killed by the Nazi regime, Jews were sent to the front lines in disproportionate numbers compared with other groups.
However, Stalin continued to suppress Judaism after the war, and many Jews were murdered, including leading Russian Jewish intellectuals who were killed in the “Night of the Murdered Poets.”
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The United Nations, a key US congressman and an international court each sent statements of support to negotiators from the Colombian government and Colombia’s largest rebel group, the FARC, Wednesday, after the announcement of a new agreement in ongoing peace negotiations.
“The UN congratulates government negotiators and the FARC on the significant progress made by this agreement on political participation,” said resident coordinator and UN humanitarian in Colombia, Fabrizio Hochschild in statement.
“”The United Nations System reiterates its full readiness to continue supporting the peace process.”
US Congressman Jim McGovern, a key lawmaker in US-Colombia relations, also welcomed the announcement.
“As a strong supporter of the peace process, I congratulate the negotiators on this achievement. It’s critical that they continue to move forward and complete a strong, just and lasting accord that will finally end 50 years of conflict and help victims and communities heal the wounds of war,” he said, in a message to Colombia Reports on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, neither the White House or the US state department made public statements on the day the agreement was signed.
President of the Inter-American Court on Human Rights (IACHR) Diego Garcia also added his congratulations.
“Naturally as Latin Americans, all judges of the Court hope that we will see the last remaining armed conflict in Latin America resolved after so many decades of suffering, violence and deaths.”
The Inter-American Court on Human Rights is an autonomous judicial institution based in San Jose, Costa Rica, which, according to its website, exists to “safeguards the essential rights of man in the American continent.”
Wednesday’s accord is the second of six preliminary pacts scheduled for ongoing peace talks.
The talks, which aim to bring an end to almost 50 years of violence between the FARC rebels and the Colombian state, began nearly one year ago in Havana, Cuba.
Correspondence from Jim McGovern (Colombia Reports)
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Looking beyond the bigger picture
The world is in the midst of a massive digital transformation. On a daily basis, IT departments are forced to grapple with a variety of changes — shadow IT, mobility, cloud and virtualised networking — all of them unique, and some more immediate than others.
Although many of these transformations are driven by users, others involve long-term strategic initiatives that are both complex and high-stakes.
In a 2015 study commissioned by American Express, nearly half (46%) of Australian CFOs surveyed through their business could fail in the next three to five years due to digital disruptions.
Clearly, disruption is here to stay, is increasing in velocity and has a strong degree of urgency. Decisions made today on technologies will affect IT, as well as their budget, for years to come.
Say goodbye to the simple days
There is more to running an IT department than strategic planning and tackling ‘next generation’ challenges.
The problem with rapid development and integration of new technologies is that IT departments are so fixated on the future and working full-time on strategic planning they forget about what is happening right in front of them.
As such, they are at risk of overlooking the type of ‘run-of-the-mill’ issues that may not be exciting, but are often the cause of real problems that have the potential to significantly affect end users.
Many of these problems can also be amended with automation and software, but if left untouched, they can wreak havoc.
IT departments face two major risks from run-of-the-mill issues.
The first is that a server hang-up, expired SSL certificate, throttled virtual machine or some other problem goes unnoticed until it reaches end users and affects productivity.
On the other hand, the second risk is that IT has such poor visibility into its infrastructure that identifying and solving these problems becomes the entire job, leaving no room for necessary big-picture thinking or even for the type of automation that would eliminate irksome inconveniences.
In both cases, small problems add up to potentially significant drains of time, money or resources in the form of downtime for the business or overtaxed IT workers.
Worse, it creates a circular system of failure.
CompTIA recently published an International Trends in Cybersecurity report that revealed 61% of companies identified human errors as the leading cause of business security breaches, as employees lacked understanding on the importance of updating, password security and authentication hygiene.
Nevertheless, as IT is so engaged with strategic thinking, administrators can’t really get a handle on minor issues if they are not flagged by employees, and effectively automate and optimise them out of existence.
Yet, when they are stuck fixing minor issues, they don’t have time to do more strategic thinking. On and on it goes, with end-user productivity and business best practices lost in the shuffle.
Take the example of email. Most IT departments are responsible for running Outlook and managing the health of the corresponding server. There are plenty of ordinary issues that can arise over time that require a server reboot to solve, which is a simple enough process, except when it happens after-hours at a company that operates 24/7.
The key to balance
Automating the process through a monitoring system or with Powershell scripts is simple for most IT departments. But without taking that easy step, administrators are stuck having to manually perform the reboot and employees have to live with the unplanned downtime for as long as it takes.
Infrastructure is constantly expanding in both size and complexity, requiring constant review and optimisation. With IT departments focused on digital transformation strategies, they do not have the resources to manually check physical and virtualised hardware on a daily basis and need comprehensive, unified views into their infrastructure, along with a well-organised process for alerts.
With a greater selection of network analytics now available, IT departments have the ability to baseline performance over time and the option to set specific alerts that notify administrators of increases or decreases in various metrics that may signify that a problem is about to occur.
By investing in a preventative medicine approach to infrastructure and network health through monitoring, automation and optimisation, IT can not only eliminate small problems and distractions, but can also free up time to focus on the digital transformation, all while improving morale.
Next-generation technologies offer everyone a lot of promise for the future, but to get there, IT needs to get a handle on what’s happening right in front of them.
A growing number of colleges and universities today resemble smart cities of the future and...
Organisations are increasingly looking to software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) solutions to help better...
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The analyst firm Verdantix is predicting that the sustainable business market will reach a tipping point in 2013. It defines a tipping point as “A point in time when the adoption of an idea tips from incremental to exponential adoption”. Basically, Verdantix is saying that in 2013 the sustainable business market growth will accelerate and continue to accelerate.
According to firm there are three factors that drive a tipping point:
People and groups who are contagious. Chief Sustainability Officers (CSO) with budget and authority are agents for change, particularly because they network with each other through professional associations and standards bodies and articulate the business case for sustainability.
Convincing ideas that stick. The argument goes that global economic growth increases natural resource costs and causes risky environmental impacts and as a consequence changes the source of competitive advantage. This is a concept that sticks in the mind of CEOs much more than an ethical green argument.
A business context that is receptive. Verdantix believes that the proven benefits from cleantech innovation, evidence that sustainability offerings can drive top line growth and a toughening policy stance on energy and climate change will, by 2013, create a new business context that will make CEOs more receptive to bigger investments in sustainable business initiatives.
I agree that all of the above will help drive sustainable business, but it’s not clear to me, even after listening in to the company’s webinar on the subject, why it will result in sudden exponential growth starting in 2013. The date prediction seems to be based primarily on the third factor, i.e. the business context. It’s the coming together of a number of factors, including growth in global economies, increased business experience in cleantech technologies such as electric vehicles and smart meters, the introduction of more climate change legislation, growing environmental concerns, and companies that have already had some success in sustainable business looking for increased investment to accelerate growth.
I hope Verdantix is right, but we have already had false starts and its not clear that much has changed. If global economies were in sync on the above points I would agree, but they are not:
Countries (and industries) will emerge from the current economic slowdown at different times which will still be apparent in economic growth rates in 2013.
There will still be a wide divergence in climate change legislation around the world by 2013. To reinforce the point, just this week Reuters reported that Christiana Figueres, head of the UN's climate secretariat, had acknowledged that UN talks will not be able to put into place a binding successor to the Kyoto Protocol by 2013 (Kyoto runs out in 2012).
There remains varying public awareness and belief in the potential impact of climate change and it seems unlikely that the situation will change by 2013. That in itself creates differing sustainable business demands.
It’s clear that the growth in sustainable business will increase significantly in the coming years (it has to), but exactly how and when is not so clear. It seems to me it’s going to be patchy, which makes a dramatic tipping point unlikely. On the other hand, it depends on what you measure and how you identify a tipping point.
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Video for Current Budget Bill Customers - Understanding Your Balance:
What is Budget Billing?
Budget Billing is a great way to take more control over your household budget. With Budget Billing, your GUC bill stays exactly the same for 12 months in a row. No more surprises, or bills that go way up or way down. Instead, you’ll have peace of mind knowing that you’ll pay the same amount on your GUC bill month after month, for an entire year.
How does Budget Billing work?
When you sign up for Budget Billing, GUC reviews the total amount you were billed for the previous year. Adjustments are made for any rate changes, and the total is divided into 12 monthly installments. That’s what you’ll pay each month during the next year. Your payments are based on the average of your bills from the year before.
For example, let’s say that for the past 12 months, your total amount billed was $2,400. Your bills ranged from a low of $100 all the way up to $450/month. You never knew what to expect. Based on that information, if you sign up for Budget Billing, your payments for the next 12 months would be $200/month ($2,400/year). Knowing what your bill will be ahead of time makes it much easier to budget.
What happens if my Budget Billing payments don’t cover my actual costs?
At the end of the 12-month period, there will be a “true-up.” This involves GUC calculating your actual usage and determining what your “real” bills should have been for the year. That amount will be compared to the amount you paid on Budget Billing.
For example, let’s say you paid $200 a month on Budget Billing ($2,400/year), but your actual bill for the year should have been $2,520. In effect, you underpaid by $120. That $120 would be factored into your Budget Billing plan for the next 12 months, and spread out ($10/month) over the next year.
On the other hand, if you paid $2,400/year on Budget Billing and your actual bill should have been $2,280, then you overpaid a total of $120. That $120 would be factored into your Budget Billing plan, making your payments that much less ($10/month) over the next 12 months. You’ll receive a letter in the mail informing you of your new Budget Billing amount at the end of each 12-month period.
At the end of year, if you choose not to continue with Budget Billing, you will be billed the amount you underpaid or credited with the amount you overpaid (on your next GUC bill).
If I sign up for Budget Billing, do I still get a bill every month?
Yes. We continue to read your meter every month, and you will still receive a monthly bill that shows you exactly how much energy you used, the actual bill amount and your account balance. The bill will also indicate your Budget Billing amount due.
Can any customer sign up for Budget Billing?
To qualify for Budget Billing, you must have lived at your current address for at least 12 months, have a good credit history with GUC, a zero account balance at the time of enrollment, and pay your monthly installments by the due date each month.
How do I sign up?
It’s easy to apply for Budget Billing. Just pick one of the following ways to sign up:
- You can get started right here by emailing us. A Customer Contact Representative will contact you to complete your application.
- You can also sign up in person at our Main Office, 401 S. Greene Street, or GUC Express, 509 SE Greenville Boulevard.
- Or, you may call 252-752-7166 and one of our Customer Contact Representatives will be happy to help you. | <urn:uuid:a6a5616c-2e6f-440b-bd2a-694938721251> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://guc.com/budget-billing | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00169-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924609 | 846 | 2.046875 | 2 |
- Type of Great Person: Great Leader
- Tech Required: Iron Working
Give your units that extra muscle with a Great Leader! Any new unit created in one of your cities that contains a settled Great Leader will automatically become a Veteran. Or you may expend your Great Leader to instantly upgrade all the units to Veteran status.
Agamemnon was a semi-mythical character in Greek literature. The king of either Mycenae or of Argos (depending upon which account you read), Agamemnon was the leader of the Greek forces during the siege of Troy. Although a brave warrior and distinguished leader, Agamemnon was also arrogant and haughty. His insults to the mighty Achilles caused that moody hero to withdraw from the field of battle, which almost resulted in total destruction of the Greek forces at the hands of the Trojan army.
Agamemnon, while a sage tactician, was not such a swell husband. He sacrificed his only daughter to the goddess Artemis and upon his return from Troy, he brought with him a concubine. Both these actions deeply enraged his wife, Clytemnestra: she murdered him for his betrayal of his family.
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Riverside Police Department
Traffic Education Programs
The Riverside Police Department's Traffic Education Unit was established in 1997 to reduce injury and death due to traffic collisions. The Riverside Police Department has been recognized as a leader in the area of Traffic Education. RPD was one of the first programs in Southern California with a full time dedicated coordinator. The Traffic Education Unit is supported by state and local grants as well as partnerships with local groups and businesses. The Traffic Education Unit has taken a pro-active step to educate the citizens of our community and provide many programs in traffic safety.
Bicycle Safety Classes and Presentations
Bicycle Safety Classes cover the laws and safety practices as they apply to bicycle riding, skateboarding, in-line skating, and motorized scooters. Children will learn the correct way to use hand signals and make safe turns. Classes can be customized for all age groups.
Host a Bicycle Safety Class for your club or neighborhood. Classes can be customized to fit the needs you have and can be scheduled by contacting Nicolle Defries, Traffic Education Coordinator at (951) 826-5674.
Teachers may request safety presentations for their classrooms or an assembly for the whole school. These presentations are scheduled as requested. Schools that participate in safety presentations will have the opportunity to offer reduced cost helmets to their students. Contact Nicolle Defries, Traffic Education Coordinator at (951) 826-5674. for more information.
Helmet usage is encouraged by offering low cost helmets through a partnership with the Riverside County Injury Prevention Services. Children participating in bicycle safety education provided by RPD’s Traffic Education Unit are qualified to purchase a helmet at a reduced cost.
Safe Routes to School Program
The Safe Routes to School is a partnership with the Riverside County Injury Prevention Services and the schools in Riverside. These programs enable community leaders, schools and parents across the United States to improve safety and encourage more children, including children with disabilities, to safely walk and bicycle to school. In the process, programs are working to reduce traffic congestion and improve health and the environment, making communities more livable for everyone. Click here for more information.
Safety Citation Program
Juveniles that are properly wearing their helmets, obeying the law, and/or practicing proper safety skills will be "cited" by police department employees. Letters will be sent to their parents and cited children will receive a prize. Each child cited will be entered into a drawing for a new bike (donated by Riverside Optimist Club).
If your child is less than 8 years old or under 4'9" they
MUST be properly secured in an approved child restraint (car seat or booster) in the back seat of your car.
The Riverside Police Department is dedicated to preventing injuries to children every time they ride in a vehicle. Car seat fitting stations are held at the Magnolia Police Facility once every month and car seat clinics are held throughout the city of Riverside several times a year. Our fitting stations and clinics allow parents to have their car seats checked for safety and proper installation by a certified technician. The car seat is checked for any recalls, proper usage, and proper fit for the child. Low cost car seats are offered to community members who need to replace an unsafe car seat. Parents participate in the installation process to insure they will be able to secure the child properly every time. Parents, grandparents, and/or caregivers are encouraged to make an appointment.
Car seat fitting station days and times vary to make this service
available to everyone. 30-minute appointments are made for each
child restraint to be checked to ensure no one will have a long
wait. Appointments are made on a first come first serve basis and
may be made by contacting Nicolle Defries, Traffic Education
Coordinator at (951) 826-5674.
Host a car seat clinic at your location by contacting Nicolle
Defries, Traffic Education Coordinator at (951) 826-5674.
Parent classes are designed for anyone that transports a child.
Participants will learn how to choose the correct type of child
restraint for their child, how to install the child restraint, and
when to move to the next level.
Classes can be customized to fit the needs you have and can be scheduled by contacting Nicolle Defries, Traffic Education Coordinator at (951) 826-5674. | <urn:uuid:a6eb5459-aa0e-4b05-8a0f-ef6be6bb31c0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.riversideca.gov/rpd/traffed/trafficed.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00272-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957434 | 898 | 2.25 | 2 |
“The infantryman’s war is…without the slightest doubt the
dirtiest, roughest job of them all.”
He went in as a military history buff, a virgin, and a
teetotaler. He came out with a war bride, a taste for German beer, and intimate
knowledge of one of the darkest parts of history. His name is Dean Joy, and
this was his war.
For two months in 1945, Joy endured and survived the
everyday deprivations and dangers of being a frontline infantryman. His
amazingly detailed memoir, self-illustrated with numerous scenes Joy remembers
from his time in Europe, brings back the sights, sounds, and smells of the
experience as few books ever have. Here is the story of a young man who dreamed
of flying fighter aircraft and instead was chosen to be cannon fodder in France
and Germany…who witnessed the brutality of Nazis killing Allied medics by using
the cross on their helmets as targets…and who narrowly escaped being wounded or
killed in several “near miss” episodes, the last of which occurred on his last
day of combat.
Sixty Days in Combat
recreates all the drama of the “dogface’s” fight, a time that changed one young
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PORTLAND — In a move that shocked nobody, fisheries managers voted on Friday to extend the moratorium on shrimp fishing in the Gulf of Maine for three more years, through 2021.
The action came at a meeting of the Northern Shrimp Section of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, which also approved modifications to the shrimp fishery management plan that will become effective if the fishery ever reopens.
The vote to approve changes to the management plan was unanimous. The vote to keep the fishery closed for three more years was 2-1, with the representatives from Massachusetts and New Hampshire voting in favor.
Department of Marine Resources Commissioner Patrick Keliher offered the sole vote against the proposed moratorium. According to DMR spokesman Jeff Nichols, Keliher would have supported a one-year moratorium.
The moratorium vote seemed to be a case of the tail wagging the dog.
Historically, landings by Maine harvesters represented the vast majority of total shrimp landings each year. In 2013, the last year in which there was a commercial shrimp fishery, Maine harvesters landed about 84 percent of the total catch. Maine’s share had been even higher in some previous years.
The decision to keep the moratorium in place came in response to “the continued depleted condition of the northern shrimp resource.”
According to the most recent stock assessment, both biomass (the estimated weight of the total shrimp population) and recruitment (the number of shrimp born each year that survive to the juvenile stage) remain at historically low levels.
Scientists say that even were recruitment to improve, “it would take several years for those shrimp to be commercially harvestable.”
The 2018 Stock Assessment Update reported that the Gulf of Maine northern shrimp spawning stock biomass was estimated at 1.3 million pounds, about 200,000 pounds lower than in 2017. Recruitment has also been low in recent years, with 2018 recruitment estimated at 2 billion shrimp, well below the median of 2.6 billion shrimp reflected in years of study.
There are several reasons, ASMFC regulators say, for the continued decline of the shrimp population.
Predation contributes significantly to the natural mortality of northern shrimp. Shrimp are an important food source to cod, haddock and whiting, all of which are found in the Gulf of Maine.
Climate change is perhaps the most significant factor affecting recruitment.
Ocean temperatures in the western Gulf of Maine have increased over the past decade, with warmer water temperature generally associated with lower recruitment and poorer survival during the first year of life.
With the continued rise of ocean temperatures predicted, the Gulf of Maine is likely to become “an increasingly inhospitable environment for northern shrimp.”
Given this change in the environment and the lack of change in stock status despite the fishery being under a moratorium for the past five years, regulators questioned whether the current management approach remains appropriate. In response to a suggestion by Keliher, they agreed to establish a working group to evaluate management strategies.
“His goal was to inform the section of different strategies that could possibly be used for 2020,” Nichols said.
Despite the grim prospects for a future fishery, regulators also approved an amendment to the shrimp management plan that gives each state the authority to allocate its state-specific quota between gear types (trawl nets or traps) in the event the fishery reopens.
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A day after the bombings in Boston, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base has not raised its security threat level, according to base spokesman Daryl Mayer.
Thousands of vehicles travel on and off the base every weekday at Ohio’s largest single site employer. A 2011 population tally showed more than 29,000 military and civilian personnel assigned to the base.
“We continue to do enhanced security protocols on a random basis, some that are visible to the public and some that are not visible to the public, and that’s part of the normal enhanced security state that we’re in,” he said Tuesday.
He declined to say what measures those were. Both military and Air Force civilian police act as sentries at each of the base’s eight gateways, Mayer said. | <urn:uuid:c5c9a8b2-41b7-4117-a7ca-3d8390969278> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/local-military/wright-patt-does-not-raise-threat-level-after-boston-bombing/zsy8VeSens2pLQXpHtBuEI/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00208-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949094 | 164 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Setting Up Your Own Diskless Workstations with LTSP - page 3
The Whys and Wherefores of LTSP
First of all, visit Rom-o-matic and create a boot program for your network cards. On this site, you can get this program in two variants: for hard-coding into the network card for diskette booting. The second variant can be used for debugging or checking procedures.
Write the image (about 32kb) onto a diskette (don't forget to insert it!) and type:
dd if=eb-5.0.7-netcard.lzdsk of=/dev/fd0
where eb-5.0.7-netcard.lzdsk is the file downloaded from the Rom-o-matic site.
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Why would a commercial about California cows be shot in New Zealand? At least one state lawmaker found that to be udderly ridiculous when he heard about an ad produced by the California Milk Advisory Board (CMAB).
It seems producers of the Happy Cow commercials flew the 6800 miles or so over to New Zealand because it was cheaper they argued, and the smartest use of dairy farmers' funds. A CMAB advertising executive told the L.A. Times that the board was exercising its "fiduciary responsibility to spend the (the dairy farmers') hard-earned dollars as efficiently as we can" and that it was a "minor portion of production. " And furthermore, the cows that are identified as California in the ads will be actual California cows.
The CMAB argues that the situation is being blown out of proportion and defended themselves in a press release calling it : "Setting the Record Straight: We carefully considered all options for producing this round of commercials and the business decision was made to save money on the commodity end of the TV commercial production cycle – shooting of non-Californian cows on a soundstage – to help save the industry so that it can continue to produce the top quality dairy products that consumers have come to expect."
The board goes on to explain the crew spent 4 days in New Zealand , which they say adds up to only 10% of the entire production.
But the CMAB is supervised by the California Department of Food and Agriculture and as far as Assemblyman Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) is concerned that's not the smartest way to use the people's money. He says there is a very "basic philosophy, that hard earned tax payer dollars, public funds... should go to help retain and create jobs in California."
The CMAB's website even has a section about how "California Cows Live Happy All Year Long. California dairy producers make sure their cows are kept cool with misters and in the winter, they are often washed in the barn with warm water to help them relax."
Lieu whose district includes, Torrance, West L.A., and Venice says he's been very supportive of the California film industry by creating and passing tax credit legislation to make it affordable to film in the state. "It's crazy to go to another country to do one of the things we are known for," he adds.
So Lieu proposed AB 1778, which requires all promotional commercials made on behalf of the State of California and paid for wholly or in part with public funds must be produced in California. The state assembly didn't take long to chew that one over and passed it, now it's on to the state senate. Lieu says the Milk Advisory Board is not challenging his legislation. | <urn:uuid:c5e55469-0636-4cbd-a52a-37ac92b6c7ef> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.nbcsandiego.com/blogs/prop-zero/State-Lawmakers-Have-Cow-Over-Ad.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00552-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973408 | 564 | 1.773438 | 2 |
ATLANTA — Georgia doesn't often see snow, but when the winter weather makes its way south to the Peach State it can be a mess.
Black ice, sleet and snow are all symptoms of a harsh winter in Georgia and can produce dangerous driving conditions. The Georgia Department of Transportation always recommends people stay home and off the roadways when conditions get dangerous, but if you can't there's certain precautions drivers should take.
The Georgia Department of Transportation has provided these tips:
Slow down to at least half your normal speed.
Also, make sure to switch down to low gear as you drive. Taking it slow and steady means you are more likely to arrive at your destination safely.
Pay attention to the DOT crews who clear snow and ice.
Don't try to pass these trucks on the highway, but instead follow at least 100 feet behind them.
If possible, postpone travel until daylight hours when road conditions such as black ice are more visible.
Call 511 to report icy conditions on interstates and state routes.
Treat broken traffic lights as four-way stops.
Don't forget to exercise extra caution because your fellow drivers may not know that the stoplight should be handled this way.
Beware of black ice!
This road condition isn't some kind of folk tale but is actually one of the most dangerous elements of winter driving weather.
Here are 3 safety tips for driving on black ice:
- Don't hit the brakes, but keep your steering wheel steady.
- Take your foot off the gas.
- Don't try to overcorrect your steering if you begin to slide.
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CHAPTER 3 – COVERAGE OF THE PRODUCER AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE PRICE INDEXES AND MEETING STAKEHOLDER REQUIREMENTS
3.6 The presentation of Tables 1, 2 and 4 highlights coverage gaps (of the current PPIs and ITPIs) as the unshaded regions within the table, and is useful for determining priorities for the expansion of price measures to meet ANA and BOP compilation needs (i.e. requirements for ANA and BOP currently fulfilled by ANA Implicit Price Deflators – IPDs and chain price indexes).
Table 1: Input–Output table, purchasers' prices – Current PPI coverage
Table 2: Input–Output table, basic prices – Current PPI and ITPI coverage
3.7 Australia is a signatory of the Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS), an initiative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF's Report on Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSC) for Australia 2010, recommended the following:
3.8 In recognition of the IMF ROSC outcomes and a general ABS strategy for coverage improvement, the ABS is developing a program to progressively extend the scope of the PPIs into the service and other harder to measure products of the economy. The main objective of this development program is to compile additional price index series for:
3.9 The limited coverage of services by PPIs is not unique to Australia and the ABS acknowledges that the PPIs and ITPIs produced by the ABS cover a broader range of goods than services. To increase services coverage there are two dedicated projects underway.
3.10 The first was the reinstatement in 2009 to the ABS work program of an experimental index measuring price change for the distribution service provided by retailers (ie Retail trade margins). The second is the services producer prices index (SPPI) extension program, for which the ABS received additional ongoing Government funding in the May 2011 Federal Budget.
3.11 The scope of these programs will be based on ANZSIC06 (and the IOPC which concords to it) and when selecting products, priorities will be set according to the requirements of the ANA and BOP.
3.12 The work on services price measurement is being conducted as part of the PPI and ITPI review and will progressively work through a prioritised list which includes compiling price indexes for:
3.13 There are significant conceptual and practical issues with measuring prices for services products. Consultation with industry associations and individual businesses will be required. There may be some elapsed time between commencement of research and the publication of new price index time series.
Presentation of the PPIs and ITPIs – Whole of economy Input-Output organising structure
3.14 As the coverage of PPIs and ITPIs are gradually expanded (the grey shaded areas in Table 3 below represent the maximum extent of PPI and ITPI expansion), there is an opportunity to reassess the presentation of the current (and future) series.
3.15 A simple organising framework could present the input and output product indexes by industry, providing inflation measures for all products consumed by business (input), and all products available for use by an economy (output), respectively. These input and output indexes are illustrated in Table 3 below as the black shaded area. This structure is currently used by Statistics New Zealand for the organisation of PPIs, where the output and input indexes correspond to the System of National Accounts (SNA) definitions of gross output and intermediate use for all industries (including services).
Table 3: Representation of a whole of economy Input-Output organising structure
3.16 There are some practical barriers to achieving this aim. A prohibitively large sample increase is required, as illustrated by comparing the gaps shown in the current price series coverage (i.e. the blank space) in Tables 1 and 2 with Table 3 above.
3.17 Price index series, however, may not need to be constructed for every ANA and BOP deflation need and the PPI/ITPI scope would increase as per the strategy and priorities to be outlined in the outcome of this review. It should be noted that the presentation of the ITPIs will not be changed by decisions relating to the presentation of the PPIs.
3.18 The ABS will expand the coverage of the PPIs and ITPIs and progressively collect sufficient data to support the principal purpose, under the current or any alternative organising structure as discussed above and in Chapter 4 – The organising structure for the PPIs and ITPIs.
3.19 The ABS will evaluate the I-O organising structure, the implementation of which may result in the current individual index presentations, such as APMI and MUMI, being altered at an aggregate level. The ABS will evaluate the need for an aggregate hierarchy of published indexes within this structure. For example, if all subdivision indexes are published, whether there is a need for the presentation of aggregated division indexes.
3.20 Users are invited to comment:
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Rainforests, whether in the Amazon, Southeast Asia or Central America, are hotspots of organic productivity, teeming with life. Fueled by abundant rain and a reliable stream of nutrients, the Amazon blooms year-round. For a brief period each summer, however, the ingenuity of humankind trumps even the mighty rainforests at biological production. At the peak of the growing season, says NASA, the Midwest U.S. corn belt is the most productive place on Earth—there's more photosynthesis going on here than even in the Amazon.
When plant cells photosynthesize, part of the energy they produce is emitted as fluorescent light. By measuring the strength of this fluorescence from space, scientists can get a measure of plant productivity—as they did in a recent study. NASA has a video explaining in more detail the process of fluorescence, and how the image above was put together:
The difference between the corn belt productivity's and the Amazon's is the incredible amount of inputs that go into creating growth in the U.S. We have to draw on vast resources to power unnatural temporary growth in a concentrated area. But, for a short period of time, it means we can produce far beyond what natural ecosystems like the Amazon can muster.
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Schools (41 - 50 of 408 items)
Higher Education: Experts Cited a Range of Requirements as Burdensome
GAO-13-371: Published: Apr 10, 2013. Publicly Released: May 10, 2013.
Indian Affairs: Management Challenges Continue to Hinder Efforts to Improve Indian Education
GAO-13-342T: Published: Feb 27, 2013. Publicly Released: Feb 27, 2013.
Charter Schools: Guidance Needed for Military Base Schools on Startup and Operational Issues
GAO-13-67: Published: Feb 5, 2013. Publicly Released: Feb 5, 2013.
Military Dependent Students: Better Oversight Needed to Improve Services for Children with Special Needs
GAO-12-680: Published: Sep 10, 2012. Publicly Released: Sep 10, 2012.
Student and Exchange Visitor Program: DHS Needs to Take Actions to Strengthen Monitoring of Schools
GAO-12-895T: Published: Jul 24, 2012. Publicly Released: Jul 24, 2012.
K-12 Education: Selected States and School Districts Cited Numerous Federal Requirements As Burdensome, While Recognizing Some Benefits
GAO-12-672: Published: Jun 27, 2012. Publicly Released: Jul 20, 2012.
Charter Schools: Additional Federal Attention Needed to Help Protect Access for Students with Disabilities
GAO-12-543: Published: Jun 7, 2012. Publicly Released: Jun 20, 2012.
School Bullying: Extent of Legal Protections for Vulnerable Groups Needs to Be More Fully Assessed
GAO-12-349: Published: May 29, 2012. Publicly Released: Jun 7, 2012.
School Improvement Grants: Education Should Take Additional Steps to Enhance Accountability for Schools and Contractors
GAO-12-373: Published: Apr 11, 2012. Publicly Released: Apr 11, 2012.
School Improvement Grants: Survey of State Educational Agencies Regarding Grant Implementation (GAO-12-370SP, April 2012), an E-supplement to GAO-12-373
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The World in Florence: 1st edition of the International Festival of World's Cultural Expressions in Florence
The Festival is an international event that celebrates the cultures of the world. It opens a five-year program of international activities to promote awareness of the various places of the world through a cultural storytelling that is realized with an innovative and interactive photography exhibition, with theme-depth content related to the relaunch of Regions and their discovering on www.lifebeyondtourism.org via NFC technology.
The project aims to create a circuit of sharing and knowledge of Regions from a Life Beyond Tourism® perspective thanks to the photographic panels that will arrive in Florence from all over the world.
In this way it will be possible to virtually visit the world through the eyes of locals and acquire a privileged look at the international tangible and intangible heritage. | <urn:uuid:a3cf1115-378c-4caf-a3ce-4625a0de5698> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dualdegree-heritage.com/event/detail/the-world-in-florence-1st-edition-of-the-international-festival-of-worlds-cultural-expressions-in-fl/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.915206 | 177 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Otolaryngology is a specialty devoted to the evaluation and treatment of ear, nose and throat (ENT) disorders as well as head and neck, hearing and communication problems. We understand how ENT conditions can affect hearing, learning, speech and sleep and impact development. Our teams provide care that takes your whole child, not just the condition, into account.
ENT conditions in children can range from recurring ear infections and enlarged tonsils, to sinus diseases or a complex craniofacial anomaly (irregular or abnormal growth of head and facial bones). Nemours ear, nose and throat doctors, called otolaryngologists, are board-certified ENT surgeons who are highly trained in the latest minimally invasive and endoscopic surgery techniques.
The most common procedures our surgeons perform include:
Nemours surgeons are also skilled in advanced reconstructive techniques and often work with other specialists to try to combine one or more surgeries during a single hospitalization, which helps reduce the number of times your child needs to receive anesthesia. | <urn:uuid:c50f7238-7fa3-4488-87ba-9b27480cafd2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.nemours.org/service/medical/otolaryngology.html?location=nccvineland | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00310-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956368 | 209 | 2.484375 | 2 |
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Poha is an Indian breakfast and snack prepared in the cuisines of Indian states of Maharashtra, Odisha, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Gujarat, Goa and Rajasthan. | <urn:uuid:a2aa9c79-13e1-4469-a981-955693730e45> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://db0nus869y26v.cloudfront.net/en/Pohay | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.718737 | 132 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Red Hat System Administration III (RH254) is designed for experienced Linux® administrators who require networking and security administration skills. With a heavy emphasis on practical, hands-on labs, focus is placed on enhancing automation skills to securely configure, deploy, and manage network services including DNS, Apache, SMTP, and network file sharing. In addition, this course emphasizes security, including monitoring, packet filtering, access controls, and SELinux.
At the completion of this course, students already familiar with the Red Hat Certified Technician (RHCT)/Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) administration skills will have exposure to all competencies tested by the RHCSA and Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE®) exams. Exams sold separately.
Course content summary:
Enhancing user security
Disk management with Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI)
System and network activity monitoring
Network management and packet filtering
Web service management
File sharing across platforms
Basic SMTP management
egabi Learn is a Professional Authorized Training Services and solutions provider covering a wide range of technical and management specializations. In addition, egabi Learn provides Rollout services covering end-to-end implementation to facilitate the entire rollout process as Theyll as outsTheircing services. egabi Learn offers various advanced learning solutions provided by experienced partners.
Since its establishment in 2007, egabi Learn has demonstrated remarkable growth, and is considered as one of the leading training services providers across MEA Region.
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I do not feel that links alone can make a site worthy of viewing. I do think that links to related areas on the web can add to the overall effectiveness and thouroughness of a well constructed site.
With that thought in mind, I have created my links page with the following categories. I intend to continue adding to this page as I find more information related to the topic of vampires. If you have a related site, or know of one that should be listed here, please contact me through the email link at the bottom of this page.
The Links Categories
Fact Related Sites
Medical Sites Related To Vampirism
Blood Related Sites
Relevant Online Literature
Fact Related Sites
To the best of my knowledge, these sites deal with the topic of vampires as a fact related issue.
Gothic Educational Services is a site where you can Learn about gargoyles and vampires: How did vampires come about? Much more in our gothic archive.
The Coven Vampyre Organization is an international Vampire organization for the preservation and prosperity of the Vampyre community and culture. The site focuses on vamp community building, providing vamp chatrooms, vamp forums, vamp message discussion boards, hosts an e-mail based vamp discussion list, vamp classified ads and vamp personals section, vamp e-postcards, comprehensive vamp members listings, free web pages and email addresses, and a calendar of Vamp events. Vamp related products, books, music, videos, clothing, jewelry, makeup, custom Vamp prosthetics (fangs, contact lenses, claws), ornaments and furniture. Vamp themed art, literature, music, contests, polls, resources and Role Playing LARPs.
Vampiric Peoples Resource Page contains articles by Amy Krieytaz and links to vampire related sites. Formerly known as the Vampire Research Resource Page.
Holly's Haven Vampire Page contains links to stories, articles, theories, clubs, organizations, and vampire related sites.
DEADEND: Vampires and Occult is a site that serves as an information reference point for vampire theories and folklore as well as links to religion and occult...for you to form your own ideas as what to believe.
These are sites that offer support and community involvement to real vampires.
The Vampire Church is a haven for
the true vampire and the vampric life.
The Church is a home to bridge the miles
between us and a place to share and learn
of the experiences of our brethen. For
in learning of ourselves, will we know
ourselves and find the path that is ours.
The International Vampyre Connection is a network of individuals,
social organizations and businesses for which the vampyre/vampire is a metaphor, representing a community interest in fetishism, the Occult, theatrics, art, lore as well as individual &
spiritual expression and exploration. The fictional "Vampire Connection" of safehouses and vampire pubs in Anne Rice's novels, comes to life here.
Thee Vampire Guild publishes a magazine entitled Crimson, which features vampire related articles. They also offer t-shirts and other products, and have recently produced a movie entitled Circle Grave.
Vampyre Exchange and Information Network is a service which was set up at the Vamps and Tramps Centenary in Whitby June 1997, to provide information and help to anyone interested in the Gothic and Vampyre genre, whatever your interpretation or understanding of "the Vampyre".
Here you can find details of organisations which cater for a variety of interests, locations and sources of "paraphernalia" and listings of events which is regularly updated.
Medical Sites Related to Vampirism
These are medical sites or sites containing medical histories, documentation, or theories pertaining to vampirism.
Porphyria is a type of disease which many doctors and scientists claim may be responsible for a number of vampire legends. There are a number of sites on the web which offer a wide variety of information on this disease.
Medical Realities The main reason real vampirism is not more widely believed is the failure of the general public to understand exactly what the virus which produces the condition actually is, or how it functions. Most people do not understand, or believe, that human DNA can be altered in such a way as to produce such a being.
Vampires: Are they just another rabid beast?
CNN-Neurologist thinks rabies was behind vampire legends
Blood Related Sites
These sites deal with blood and the practices of bloodplay and blood drinking. My hope in adding these links to this site is to offer as much information as possible. Safety is fundamental to survival when engaging in these practices.
The Site That Dripped Blood Blood is the nector that hosts both life and death. The serum carries
oxygen and nutrients that supply our cells with the needed energy, while at the same time it breeds the captures of death. Below is a hotlist of some of some of these diseases of mortality and phenomons of life, or shall I say of the living death.
Drinking Blood deals with the religious aspect of drinking blood as it is viewed through the Bible and the Catholic Church.
Blood Sports is a site containing information on blood, bloodplay, knifeplay, bloodsports, asphyxiation, strangulation, breath control, and other subjects.
Safe Bloodletting Techniques The articles in this section are listed for reference only. The techniques described here are very dangerous if you don't know what you are doing, and they are not simple to learn. Do not attempt to learn them on your own, without a teacher. I hope soon to have a list of qualified people willing to teach advanced bloodletting techniques to blood-drinkers. Stay tuned.
Blood Fetishists is a site for people for whom blood-drinking and/or bloodletting are either an erotic turn-on or a preferred expression of intimacy/bonding (not necessarily erotic). I distinguish between blood fetishists and two other categories of blood-drinkers: (1) sanguinarians, who have an out-and-out bodily need to drink blood, and (2) blood-drinking psychic vampires, who crave blood as a source of "pranic energy." All these categories do overlap heavily. Those blood fetishists who are not also sanguinarians or psychic vampires are generally not considered "vampires" by the other major categories of self-described vampires, although blood fetishism does have a long history of being called "vampirism" in psychiatric literature, newspaper articles, and nonfiction vampire books. Some blood fetishists call themselves "vampires" while others do not.
Devil Head Industries Vampire art,pictures,poety,links,webrings or anything else a vampire would show the world.(still in the early stages of construction)
Mythology Related Sites
These sites, although not based on fiction, deal with the mythology and folklore of vampires, as opposed to the reality of todays vampiric people.
A Vampyre Site with Cool Graphics, Java applets, Midi Music, Legends of the Undead, Dark Poetry, and Links to other Dark Sites!
Staking Claims: The Vampires Of Folklore And Fiction The folklore of the vampire has only a slight connection with the fiction, much the way the folklore of ghosts has little to do with the movie Ghostbusters. Most people aren't aware that, throughout European history, there have been extensive and detailed accounts of bodies in graveyards being dug up, declared to be vampires, and killed.
Vampire Folklore Resources lists books, biographies, articles, reviews, movies, and other resources related to the vampire topic.
The vampire A to Z is a site which contains A listing of various vampires from around the world which are categorized alphabetically.
Vampire Myths In Fiction A (fairly) comprehensive list of vampire mythology and how those myths apply to popular fiction. Useful for gamers, authors, mythology buffs, or just plain bibliophiles.
Vampires: Origins of the Myth ParaScope correspondent Adrian McGrath's epic overview of vampire legends, myths, and facts. Step into the crypt!
The story of Lilith is fascinating in two respects. first, it tells us that Lilith was the very first vampire. Second, it tells us that because she left Eden before the fall of Adam and Eve, she can not die. For this reason, I have given Lilith her own category on this page.
Lilith Information, pictures and links regarding Lilith, the mythological first wife of Adam, and the feminine dark side of the divine
About Lilith When the time comes for an evil man to die, Lilith appears to him and induces him to sin with her, and during his sin she kills him.
Lilith, Vampire Goddess What is it about the story of Lilith that rings true in some of us.
The Lilith Collection Her name is
a "demoness" who preceeded Eve and fought for equality with Adam in the Garden of Eden.
Relevant Online Literature
Below are links to online versions of stories, poetry, novels, and miscellaneous articles related to or pertaining to the topic of vampires. I shall try to keep this list as close to chronological as I can, based on publication dates.
In April of 1819, a story was published in The New Monthly Magazine. Authorship of the story was credited to George Gordon sixth Lord Byron, but was later claimed by Dr. John Polidori. The story was entitled The Vampyre and Dr. Polidori confessed that it was based on notes of Lord Byron's and that the lead character was in fact a charicature of Lord Byron. Lord Byron later published his own work based on those same notes. It is interesting to note that Lord Byron's Fragment of a Novel there is no reference to vampires. Despite the Polidori's claim of authorship, and Lord Byron's denial of it, The Vampyre continued to be known as one of the best works of Lord Byron for many years.
The Mortal Immortal was written by Mary Shelly and published in 1833. Although best known for her novel Frankenstein, this Shelly work is worth a reading by the vampire enthusiast.
Varney The Vampire aka Feast Of Blood written by James Malcolm Ryner, is a representative work of the nineteenth century genre known as the Penny Horror. These were short (six to eight page) serials published on a weekly basis and sold for the price of a penny. Varney The Vampire was first announced in 1845 and ran for two years, being published as 109 penny horrors containing 220 chapters. The success of this story led to a stage production in 1846, and the publication of the complete story as a single work in 1847.
Carmilla Written by Joseph Thomas Sheridan La Fanu and first published in 1872 as part of a collection of short stories entitled In A Glass Darkly, this is one of the earliest English vampire stories to feature a female vampire.
Dracula's Guest is an excerpt from the Bram Stoker novel Dracula which was published two years after the author's death in 1914.
If you prefer, you can read the entire novel Dracula, or you can listen to the original Orson Welles radioplay of the book. You must have Realplay to listen to this file.
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January 4, 2011
Just a thumbs up to say that I agree with your research on the kinship analysis. I have used one of your articles in my AF Bible on Keturah and give you credit for it. I agree with your research on kinship analysis however we may disagree on Adam being an archetype. I do not think he was an archetype as I see a real person there and see the pattern in of North/South divide in his two wives, one Lilith not documented but in the scriptures and one Chava. I have used these patterns to arrive at many relations of Yahushua (Jesus) in the Renewed Covenant writings in my book Beyth Yahushua. Thank you for your site and your valuable research. Though I have done research on this but I do not publish all mine as mostly it is private for teaching purposes.
The Rabbinic schools do not know these things and are too stuck in the Talmud to recognize any of this however that least bothers our work in both Asia and Africa to restore the lost sheep to the House of Israel.
Blessings in Yahushua
Rabbi Simon Altaf
|Rabbi Simon Altaf|
January 3, 2011
In the late 1950's a world renown naval architect, Howard Chaplelle got into a rather hateful debate on the USS Constellation.
The Original ship was built before 1800 and the keel was so marked. Chapelle looked at the vessel and said it was built just before the civil war. This enraged the citizens of Baltimore (probably others too). Chapelle was alone is stating that the custom was to take salvageable wood from previous vessels and incorporate them into the new vessel. Both vessels in this case had the same name. The critics were extremely harsh.
After his death “science” and other records caught up with Chapelle. He was proved right and his critics were proven wrong.
The vessel now sits in Baltimore harbor with a proper history and Chapelle's finds are incorporated into the “record”.
So dear friend, even if you are right you will catch heck.
Anyway... illegitime non carborundum
The Rev. Paul Taylor, Priest
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